Name: CULTURE CAROUSEL 23 0827 | Niño Tiro, Octurnals by 98.7 DZFE-FM The Master's Touch
Duration: 24 min 56 s
Description: Night-time music takes center stage on CULTURE CAROUSEL, where composer Niño Tiro tells us about his new album, Octurnals, written for, and performed, by his sister, pianist Marie Antonio. Irene Obligacion is the host.

Night-time music takes center stage on CULTURE CAROUSEL, where composer Niño Tiro tells us about his new album, Octurnals, written for, and performed, by his sister, pianist Marie Antonio. Irene Obligacion is the host.

CULTURE CAROUSEL 23 0827 | Niño Tiro, Octurnals

Rising like the breeze it is named after, Ily Matthew Maniano’s Amihan is a gentle, understated piece. Far from a display of technical bravura, it nonetheless won the top prize in the 2022 Busan International Choral Festival Composition Competition. We’ll hear that work on MAESTRO FILIPINO, where Maniano also shares the process behind his deceptively simple work. DZFE’s Daniel is the host.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0302 | Ily Matthew Maniano: Amihan

Pianist Zion Montebon leaves high school on a high note: he performs in the Manila Pianos Artist Series concert, Of Good Tidings, leading up to his graduation recital at the National Arts Center next month. He talks about these performances with Irene Obligacion on CULTURE CAROUSEL, and shares how he has grown during his years at the PHSA and what he hopes to learn in the new chapter of his budding career.

CULTURE CAROUSEL 24 0317 | Zion Montebon: Of Good Tidings

Built by Diego Cera Organ Builders, the new organ of St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai was inaugurated by Alejandro Consolacion II, who put it through its paces in a recital last December. On MAESTRO FILIPINO, he shares the music he performed, and talks about the character of the instrument at the heart of that event. DZFE’s Daniel is the host.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0330 | Alejandro Consolacion II Shanghai recital

Laarni Dawn Ilan is an IT professional with a passion for playing the piano. In fact, Passion is the name of her upcoming Manila Pianos Artist Series recital, where she delivers works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven, and more—all for the benefit of Cancervants PH. On MAESTRO FILIPINO, she shares how that event came to be, and how she maintains her edge as a musician even while working a day job. DZFE’s Daniel is the host.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0406 | Laarni Dawn Ilan: Passion

Sure, you’ve come across the word, nonchalant. But what about nonchalant virtuosity? That’s sprezzatura—a term often used in the Baroque Period to describe an attitude of effortless grace. We witness that later this month as guitarist Dr. Ivar Fojas and his students perform in the recital Sprezzatura. He and three of his proteges—Kyle Lorenzana, Agung Sicam and Beatrice Cena—join DZFE’s Daniel on MAESTRO FILIPINO to give us a glimpse of that event, and talk about the sound that marks Dr Fojas' style of playing.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0413 | Sprezzatura

After a lengthy hiatus, UST’s Sibol Guitar Octet emerges once more on stage, this time with the St. Scholastica’s College Guitar Trio in the concert, Cohaesio. Telling us how this collaboration came about, and what music is in store, are guitarists Karra Custodio of the SSCGT, and Gabriel Reyna, Karl Sabado and Zach Dugay of Sibol. Hear their insight, and their music, on MAESTRO FILIPINO with DZFE’s Daniel.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0420 | Cohaesio

Frederic Chopin stands at the spotlight from May to July, as Manila Pianos Artist Series and Cultural Arts Events Organizer mount a six-week Chopin Fest, marking 175 years since the passing of Poland's most famous composer. Launching the series are the two piano concertos of his unblooded youth, to be performed by pianists Gabriel Paguirigan and Ricardo Abapo. They join DZFE's Daniel on MAESTRO FILIPINO to talk not only about these works, but also about Chopin's legacy, and his music at large.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0427 | Chopin Fest

Make the piece your own—that is the philosophy that helped Zildjian Viray win in last year’s Kayserburg International Youth Piano Competition, and in two categories in the recent PTGPFI piano competition. He speaks with DZFE’s Daniel to share his story and his music on the next program of MAESTRO FILIPINO.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0504 | Zildjian Viray

Fatal love binds the works featured in the Manila Pianos Artist Series recital, Amore Fatale. But more importantly, Krissan Manikan-Tan, with tenor Nomher Nival and pianist Gabriel Paguirigan, explore the repertoire of the operatic mezzo-soprano. On MAESTRO FILIPINO, they join DZFE’s Daniel to share the story and reasons behind Amore Fatale, and how the mezzo repertoire can be just as challenging and dazzling as any.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0511 | MPAS: Amore Fatale

Those who know about soprano Evelyn Mandac know she is the first—and so far, only—Filipino to grace New York’s Metropolitan Opera Theater. Besides that, we find little else written about her online. Driven by the scarcity of information—and drawn by Mandac’s rich, crystalline voice—art historian Chiara Cox set about uncovering her many astounding achievements to discover who Evelyn Mandac truly is. And what has she learned so far? That Evelyn Mandac does not define herself by her operatic success.
They join DZFE’s Daniel to talk about Evelyn’s career, Chiara’s research, the short documentary it produced, and more, on MAESTRO FILIPINO.

MAESTRO FILIPINO 24 0518 | Chiara Cox on the life and career of Evelyn Mandac

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