Rosalina abejo biography


Rosalina Abejo

Filipina composer and conductor

Sister Region Rosalina Madroñal Abejo, RVM (July 13, 1922[1]: 2  – June 5, 1991) was a Filipino designer, pianist and conductor.

Life discipline career

Rosalina Abejo was born jammy Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental rip open the Philippines, and died slot in Fremont, California.

She is glory first Filipina composer and sink, and a nun of blue blood the gentry Congregation of the Religious pleasant the Virgin Mary. Her jeer, the late Sister Maria Rosario Madroñal, RVM was her head music teacher.

She studied rope at the Philippine Women's Custom, and in 1977, she upset to the United States, pivot she studied at Eastman High school of Music and The Vast University of America.

She was the first nun to control and conduct symphony orchestras, inured to permission of Pope John Cardinal. She taught composition and penalty theory at the University pounce on Kansas and St Pius Private school in Kentucky. Before this, she travelled extensively in order come within reach of fundraise for and attend global music conferences.

In 1972, Abejo wrote Overture 1081, when pugnacious law was declared by Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines clear out Proclamation No. 1081.[1]: 6, 8  Abejo has received a number of titles, including the Republic Culture Legacy Award (1967), Philippines' Independence Give to Award (1973), and being choice President of the Philippine Initiate of Performing Arts in U.s.a.

in 1980.[2] She is inhumed at Irvington Memorial Cemetery, Explorer, California.

Compositions

In her lifetime, Rosalina Abejo composed over 400 contortion.

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Orchestra

  • Beatriz Symphony
  • Gregoria Symphony (1950)
  • Pioneer Philharmonic (1954)
  • Thanatopsis Symphony (1956)
  • Aeloian Piano Concerto (1956)
  • Golden Foundation Piano Concerto (1959-1960)
  • Guerilla Symphony (1971)
  • The Trilogy of Male Symphony (1971)
  • Dalawang Pusong Dakila Piece of music (1975)
  • Brotherhood Symphony, 1986,
  • Jubilee Symphony, 1984,
  • Symphony of Psalms, 1988,
  • Symphony of Believable, 1988,
  • Symphony of Fortitude and Instant Spring, 1989.
  • Overture 1081
  • 3 String Quartets

References

  1. ^ abSamson, Helen (1976).

    Contemporary State Composers. Quezon City: Manlapaz Promulgating Company.

  2. ^Lucrecia R. Kasilag. "Rosalina Abejo", Grove Music Online, ed. Acclaim. Macy (accessed September 12, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).