European GP for choral Singing 2012

Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club, Philippines

conductor Maria Lurdes M. Hermo
(winner of International May Choir Competition «Prof. G. Dimitrov» – Varna 2011, Bulgaria)

Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club (ACGC) is the oldest university chorale in the Philippines. Founded in 1921, the chorale had pioneered many firsts as a Filipino choral group and student organization. They have won numerous competitions, including the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). Moreover, the ACGC has proudly carried the name of the Philippines in their European, Asian, and North American tours. Since 2002, Maria Lourdes V. Hermo leads the ACGC as the group’s first female conductor. In celebration of its 90th anniversary in 2011, the group embarked on another European Tour, where they won the 33rd International May Choir Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, thus earning the distinction to compete in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (EGP) in 2012. Drawing from its rich tradition of musical excellence, the ACGC hopes to promote Filipino culture and heritage as agents of social change for the nation.

Maria Lourdes Venida-Hermo is a professor of music at the St. Scholastica’s College, Manila, where she handles Choral Conducting, Music Theory, and Chorus classes, and was a faculty member of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music for almost fifteen years. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Choral Conducting at the University of the Philippines in 1983 and 1998. Professor Hermo is a regular jury member in choir competitions of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) and conducts choral clinics in its outreach programs, including workshops for the Kodaly Society of the Philippines and the Philippine Society of Music Educators. Currently, she is the Vice-President of the newly established Philippine Choral Directors Association (PCDA).

Programme:
Jacobus Handl – Gallus (1550–1591): ELISABETH ZACHARIÆ (Lk 1, 14–15)
Muzikološki inštitut ZRC SAZU

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847): AUF DEM SEE, Op. 41/6 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Choral Public Domain Library

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968): MESSA DI REQUIEM
                                               – Sanctus (Ordinarium missæ)
Ricordi

Urmas Sisask (1960): BENEDICTIO (Blessing)
Fennica Gehrman

John August Pamintuan (1972): REGINA CÆLI (Easter antiphon)
Self-published

Josefino Chino Toledo (1959): SANCTO SANCTUS (Traditional Filipino – Ordinarium missæ)
Self-published

Eudenice Palaruan (1968): KOYU NO TEBULUL T'BOLI (Folk song from Southern Mindanao)
Self-published