UPV-OICA offers violin and piano concert to celebrate 75 years of UP presence in Iloilo

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The UP Visayas Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts hosted a violin and piano concert at the UPV Performing Arts Hall at the Iloilo City Campus on July 26, 2022.

Violinist Jeanne Marquez played an array of classical pieces from great composers like Gardel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Accompanying her on the piano was Gabriel Allan Paguirigan.

For their superb performance, the duo received four standing ovations from the audience.

The 18 year-old Marquez was first prize winner of the 2022 New York Laureate International Music Competition and the 2022 Young Performers Prize Competition. She also won the top prize in the 2019 National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA).

Marquez finished her pre-college studies at the Colburn Music Academy. She is leaving for New York for her studies at the Julliard School of Music. At the age of 15, Marquez made her major orchestral debut with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of renowned Filipino-Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski.

Paguirigan is a top prize-winner of the National Music Competitions for Young Artist (NAMCYA). He is a product of the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA). He finished his Bachelor of Music in Piano at the University of the Philippines. He is also a top prize winner of the 2013 PPO Young Pianists Competition and the 2013 PTGP Piano Ensemble Competition.

Paguirigan performed solo at the Auditorium in UPV in 2016. He has been accepted at Guildhall School of Music London.

The concert was made possible in collaboration with impresario Pablo Tariman who dedicated the duo’s performance in memory of his daughter Kerima a poet and revolutionary who died in August last year.

The performance which is part of the 75th anniversary of the UP Presence in Iloilo was supported by Richmonde Hotel Iloilo, Manila Arts Quarterly, and Rustan’s Group of Companies. (Ms. AL Ramirez with sources from OICA)

The full concert may be viewed at UPV OICA Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=786701639344007&id=100043529041605