PPO REACHES ITS FINAL METAMORPHOSIS
Maestro Herminigildo Ranera takes the dais and performs with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra for the finale concert of its thirty eighth concert season on April 28, 2023, 8pm, on the CCP Live on the Metropolitan Theater.
The PPO resident and associate conductor is a multi-awarded musician who won top prizes on the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in 1982 and 1983 for his performances within the Trombone, Baritone, and Tuba (Chamber Music) categories. He won second place on the 1983 League of Filipino Composers Competition for Young Composers. He has performed with various orchestras here and abroad, including the UST Symphony Orchestra, the Manila Philharmonic, the Philippine Pops Orchestra, the CSULB Symphony Orchestra, the Chia Yi Wind Orchestra, San Miguel Philharmonic, Transylvania Philharmonic Orchestra in Club, Romania, and the Philippine Pop Orchestra, amongst others. He has collaborated along with his mentor, Fr. Manuel P. Maramba, O.S.B. in various CCP productions. He was the musical director and conductor of the Philippine Opera Corporations’ OPERA NOW in 2005, the conductor of the world premiere of three Filipino Operas and Zarzuela. Founding father of the Philippine Band Association (PHILBANDA), Dr. Ranera is currently the board member of the Asia-Pacific Band Directors Association and the adviser of Band Conductors League of the Philippines.
The PPO, under his baton, will premiere his very own music “Lola Basyang Miniature Suite,” alongside with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s L’espoir renait dans mon ame from Orphee et Eurydice, and Gaetano Donizetti’s Prendi, per me sei libero from L’elisir d’amore.
The CCP resident orchestra continues its repertoire for its Concert VIII with Gioacchino Rossini’s Si, ritrovarla io giuro from La Cenerentola, Georges Bizet’s Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante from Carmen, and Gaetano Donizetti’s Quio! Vous m’aimez? from La fille du regiment, and Antonin Dvorak Symphony no. 9, op.95, E minor (“from the Latest World”).
The PPO shares the stage with young talented singers, soprano Mheco Joy Manlangit and tenor Radnel Del Rio Ofalsa.
A winner of multiple vocal competitions locally and internationally, Manlangit won first prize and the Audience Alternative on the 2018 Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition, and second Prize on the 2017 Singapore International Festival of Music Competition. She has played various notable roles similar to Maria Clara in CCP’s Noli Me Tangere the Opera, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, and Lady Billows in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. She is the present choir director of the Hudson Montessori School, and an lively performing artist in Latest York and Manila.
Ofalsa bagged the primary prize in two National Vocal Competitions, the 2018 Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition, and the Best Interpretation of the Competition Piece on the 2017 NAMCYA Senior Voice Category. He was an Encouragement Award winner on the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in San Francisco District. He has performed on the CCP’s fiftieth Gala Concert, NAMCYA’s forty fifth Anniversary Concert, Paco Park Presents, UST Christmas Gala Live shows, NCCA’s Musikapuluan, the Friends of the Philippines Society USA Inc.’s Modern Day Filipino Heroes Concert, and the Mannes Sounds Festival.
Dubbed Metamorphosis, the thirty eighth concert series serves because the battleground for the five shortlisted conductors vying for the musical director position. Be careful who will probably be named the PPO musical director.
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