Celebrating milestones in thought leadership….Touching more lives and making a difference….

Leaving a legacy of success…

Happy birthday Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan

Education, innovation and leadership – putting these elements together, the First Pacific Leadership Academy aspires that in this occasion entitled “Crafting Chapters and Lessons in Thought Leadership”, we expand the reach of our mission. As we aim to be a center of excellence and a training ground for the leaders of today and tomorrow, it is our promise to bring you (more of you) opportunities of continuous learning and development.

We could not think of any other way to express our support and admiration to our Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, but to commit to our mission and stage the makings of a thought leader. In celebration of his many years of thought leadership, we at the FPLA invited similarly inspiring and seasoned thought leaders in business, science, music and the arts, to showcase their brilliance in their respective field. We are proud to bring you our national treasures in Music Ms. Cecile Licad and Rachelle Gerodias, adding to our interesting mix

of special guests. We believe that through their life and work, we advocate the holistic formation of a leader. In this light, we would like each and every one to witness how the diversity of experiences, talents, skills and personal giftedness moves toward a united end – to leave us with footsteps to follow.

To those of you who are joining us for the first time, especially to our beneficiaries, it is my pleasure to introduce to you the First Pacific Leadership Academy through this endeavor. We would like you to make the most out of this opportunity and participate in the exchange of ideas, may that be during the panel forum or in simple socialization. For our dear executives in the First Pacific Group, we welcome you once again to our Executive Talks. This time we offer you more than a discussion, but a celebration!

Together let us celebrate and “craft chapters and lessons in thought leadership”! Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

Roy Agustin K. EvalleGeneral Manager and Executive DirectorFirst Pacific Leadership Academy

Welcome Message

The Philippine National Anthem

Program

Conversations on Thought Leadership with(3:00-5:00pm)

Ryan SyRachelle GerodiasPocholo Gonzales

Dan Luchangco, MDOlivier Ochanine

Reinabelle Reyes, PhDCecile Licad

Open Forum

Intermission

Musical Performances(5:30-8:00pm)

Ryan SyQuintetto Felix

The Philippine Philharmonic OrchestraRachelle Gerodias

Cecile Licad

Message from ChairmanManuel V. Pangilinan

Finale by The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Closing Remarks byAce Victor Aceron

Invocation Welcome Remarks by Roy Agustin K. Evalle

Hosts Director Vince and Patricia Hizon Bart Guingona

PlaylistRyan Sy

Quintetto FelixFrancesco Nicolaci (Violin)David Villaverde Navarro (Violin)Davide Bottine (Guitar)Tancredi Celestre (Viola)Oscar Doglio (Cello)

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Rachelle Gerodias

Cecile Licad

DreamsOriginal Composition

WeakOriginal Composition

Badinerie, Suite No. 2, in B Minor BWV 1067Johannes Sebastian Bach

Air on a G StringJohannes Sebastian Bach

Hungarian Dance #5 in F Sharp MinorJohannes Brahms

Cinema ParadisoEnnio Morricone

The Mission Theme – Gabriel’s OboeEnnio Morricone

Jazz Suite #2 Waltz #2Dmitri Shostakovich

Mutya Ng PasigNicanor Abelardo

Sempre LiberaLucrezia Bori

The Light of a Million Mornings

Rachmaninoff Concerto No.2 in C minorSergei Rachmaninoff

Roman Holiday Overture

A thought leader can refer to an individual or company that is recognized as a trusted source of information for a specialized field. A thought leader is one whose expertise is sought-after and

whose opinion can influence and inspire people in the industry to take action. Innovation and initiation is also an aspect that sets a thought leader apart. In terms of corporate entities, the concept of thought leadership is used by consulting and technology companies as a marketing tool. It is a way for them to educate potential and existing customers and stakeholders about a particular product or service. This can be in the form of white papers, e-books, newsletters, webinars and infographics wherein a problem is defined and a solution is presented in such a way that demand is created for the product or service being discussed. Thought leaders also significantly profit by being recognized as such. A visionary and influencer, thought leaders are distinguished strategists whose fresh insights can have a great impact in their field. Their cutting-edge thinking positively affect the marketplace and make great advances in the field by striving to ask the questions nobody else has and exploring areas that others haven’t yet.

Thought Leadership

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He has also been responsible for conceptualizing, scripting and directing a variety of shows for corporations, institutions and events such as the PECC, the APEC conferences in Hong Kong and Davos, the National Press Club’s Gridiron Night, Century Properties (Essensa, West of Ayala, Oxford Suites, Medical Plaza Ortigas), Coca Cola, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Total, Apec Business Advisory Council Conference, Ayala Malls (Nights at the Circus, The Magic of Curtis, Disney Princesses), The CCP Centennial Awards, the Centennial Celebration Flag Ceremony (in Kawit, Cavite; Sta. Barbara, Iloilo; Butuan City) the MediaNation Conferences, the Prejudice and Pride Conferences and countless others.

Bart GuingonaWinner of the 2013 and 2003 ALIW Award for Best Stage Actor, the Gawad Buhay Award for Best Male Lead Performance and 2013 ALIW award for Best Director, he has directed and acted for most of Manila’s major theatre companies including the highly acclaimed The Crucible for Repertory, Julius Caesar for Gantimpala Theatre Foundation, Ang Kuripot for Tanghalang Pilipino and Blood Wedding for Dramatis Personae. He has fulfilled 2 theater grants in London, one for theater direction and is presently artistic director and president of Actor’s Actors Inc (AAI). His body of work as director and writer also includes the multi-media celebration of the senses Rendezvous avec les Sense, FireWaterWoman with Ballet Philippines and Musical Theater Philippines. Recent works include “Shopping and Fucking,” Closer, Art, Oleanna and the musicals “Promises, Promises” and The Last Five Years. His accomplished portrayals include Hamlet, Macbeth, John Proctor in The Crucible, Madame in The Maids, Jose Rizal in Teksto at Komentaryo and Oedipus the King as well a host of television, movie and commercial appearances. His eclectic choice of directorial material for AAI includes the farce The Nerd, and the complex Cocteau melodrama Les Parents Terribles, the all-male Taming of the Shrew and the smash hit musical Once on This Island. His philosophy is that theater should encompass all ideas however complex or simple - that theater should be idea-driven. He recently directed the smash musical Children’s Letters to God and ART in Pilipino for AAI and currently stars in the long-running and widely acclaimed Repertory Phils. Production of Tuesdays With Morrie.

Director

Maria Rachelle Gerodias, “Ten Outstanding Young Men” and “The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service” awardee, is one of the Philippines’ most sought after singers, regularly performing to large audiences throughout the Philippines and abroad. Ms. Gerodias is also one of the country’s most award-winning sopranos, having won 1st Prize in the Civic Morning Musicals Vocal Competition in Syracuse, New York and being in the Aliw Awards Hall of Fame for Best Female Classical Performer.

Ms. Gerodias received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance and Vocal Literature from the famed Eastman School of Music, in New York; she holds a Professional Diploma in Operatic studies from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In the Philippines, she graduated ‘cum laude’ from the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Professor Gloria Coronel.

Equally dazzling in her interpretations of songs, oratorios, musicals and the Filipino Art song (Kundiman) genre, Ms. Gerodias has collaborated with some of today’s most celebrated artists. Her performances with top musicians in the Philippines and abroad include chamber concerts with Peter Schmidle of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; she has also worked with respected conductors Georg Tintner, Piero Gamba, Oscar Yatco, Ryan Cayabyab, Yaacov Bergman, and Christoph Eschenbach among many others. Her collaboration with MIRELLA FRENI makes her the only Filipina to have ever worked with the legendary opera diva.Soprano

Additional international performances receiving high acclaim include Ms. Gerodias’s April 2008 European Debut at the VOLKSOPER WIEN in Vienna, Austria, where she sang the role of Liu in Puccini’s Turandot. She also performed in the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2009 New Year Concert, held at the National Theater of Sarajevo, under Uros Lajovic. She performed at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan as Despina in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. Singapore audiences were captivated by her rendition of Kathy in The Student Prince, Micaëla in Carmen, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Liu in Turandot.

She represented the Philippines as one of the featured soloists of the China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing for the 2009 Asia-Europe Culture and Arts Festival. She also performed with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra for the World Expo in Shanghai.

She performed with the L’Orchestra Citta di Firenze under the baton of Maestro Castriota and In October 2010, Ms. Gerodias joined an international cast of singers performing the lead role in a production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Daegu International Opera Festival 2010 in South Korea making her the first Filipina to perform at the Daegu Opera House. Her most recent operatic triumphs were the roles of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the 2012 Daegu International Opera Festival in Korea and Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in Singapore.

Along with her busy performance schedule, Ms. Gerodias coaches singing at the prestigious University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music. She is also a former member of the University of the Philippines College of Music Voice Faculty. Furthermore, Ms. Gerodias can be heard on several CD recordings made with renowned Filipino and international artists.

Rachelle is a member of the Zonta Club of Manila and the UN Women. She has recently established the Rachelle Gerodias Music Foundation Inc., a scholarship foundation that supports the formal education of underprivileged but talented musicians geared towards serving in the Unida Evangelical Church Music Ministry.

Rachelle Gerodias

Futurist, Social Entrepreneur, Youth Advocate, Voice Artist, Voice Director/Coach, Motivational Speaker, Broadcaster, Producer, Anime/Events Specialist, and Personal Branding Expert.

Pocholo “The VoiceMaster” Gonzales is a Filipino Voice Actor whose voiceover works appeared in radio and TV commercials, radio dramas, children’s programs, computer games, dubbed foreign telenovelas, films and anime, and original animation. And so far, spoke to more than 100 schools and universities around the world.

Although still very young, Pocholo “The VoiceMaster” Gonzales is already considered as a veteran in the art of voice acting for television, radio, and even online. He started his professional career at age 16, and since then has harnessed his talent to become one of the best and most experienced in the field of voice acting.

He also organizes shows, seminars and workshops on voice acting. At present, he owns and manages CreatiVoices Productions, CreatiVisions Productions and Speech Communication Center, and also keeps himself busy with the society of young voice artists of the Philippines or SYVAP, a group of voice actors and talents he organized. Aside from his voice acting credentials, he takes pride at being honored as a youth advocate in Washington DC, New York, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong for being the founder of the Youth Organization Voice of the Youth Network.

He finished his BA in Speech Communication and took his MA in Broadcast Communication at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.

Voicemaster

He believes that voice acting is an art that needs to be heard, to be recognized, and to be further developed. He used to be the youngest board member of the Advertising Suppliers Association of the Philippines and Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. Currently, board member of the Philippine Marketing Association, Junior Chamber International (JCI) Makati and Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program Alumni Association.

He is a branding expert as well. He gives talks in different places around the country and imparts his knowledge in Communication, Voice Acting, Personal Branding, Guerilla Marketing, and Youth Empowerment and Development – “The Pochology 101”.

The VoiceMaster has also worked with various CEOs and government officials.

He produced Voice of the Youth Radio on DZME, Youth Service Radio on DZSR, Voice of the Youth TV, Creative Business TV, and Tek Tok TV at Global News Network and also worked as a director for Hero TV and Cinema One.

On June 12, 2003, he received the Youth Action Net Award sponsored by the International Youth Foundation in Washington D.C., USA and the Youth in Action Award by the Global Youth Action Network in New York City, USA.

In 2009, He was awarded the GoNegosyo Most Inspiring Entrepreneur by the Former President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

In 2012, he spoke to the Voiceover International Creative Experience “VOICE 2012” in Anaheim, California, where he met the best voiceover artists from around the world.

He was also part of the Faculty of Asian Academy of Television Arts being managed by Wilma Galvante former EVP of GMA 7 and now the Head Dean of Artista Academy of TV 5. Currently he is the producer and anchor of the only youth oriented radio show “Voice Of The Youth Radio” on DZIQ Radyo Inquirer 990 AM every Saturday from 3:00-4:30 pm and for this, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Media Award during 8th Hildegarde Awards at St. Scholastica’s College.

Pocholo De Leon Gonzales

Cecile Buencamino Licad was born in Manila, Philippines to Rosario Buencamino and Dr. Jesus Licad. She began her piano studies at the age of three from her mother. She later studied with the highly regarded Rosario Picazo, and by the age of seven, made her debut as a soloist with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.

At the age of twelve, Licad moved to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with three of the greatest performers/pedagogues: Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski.

Licad won international recognition as one of the youngest musicians to ever receive the prestigious Leventritt Competition Gold Medal. In 1981, the award launched her international career performing with major orchestras in the world.

A biography My Daughter Cecile, chronicling her life up to the winning of this award was published in 1994, the author her mother.Her recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, with André Previn conducting the London Philharmonic, was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin in 1985, in the piano and orchestra works category by the Fryderyk Chopin Society, Warsaw, Poland.Pianist

Licad has been dubbed as “a pianist’s pianist” by The New Yorker. A Washington Post reviewer also once wrote “every sound she made was beautiful, every note and phrase the result of intellect warmed by emotion.”

Cecile Licad

Daniel Luchangco is the 4th of the 5 children of investment banker and businessman Guillermo Luchangco and his wife Maloy. Three of his siblings are, like their father, in the finance industry, working both locally and regionally in Hong Kong and Singapore. His other brother completed his undergraduate through PhD in MIT in Boston and now works with Oracle there. Daniel is the only doctor in the family.

His early education was done in Xavier School, and he transferred to Ateneo de Manila for high school. He continued on in the Ateneo, majoring in BS Psychology before going on to medical school at the UERM Memorial Medical Center where he was President of his class. During medical training he found that he had an affinity for activity in the Emergency Room and, after passing the medical boards in 2005, took his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Makati Medical Center.

After specialization, he was absorbed into the medical staff of Makati Med and became part of the faculty of the Emergency Medicine training program. He went on to establish Emergency Departments in UERM and

E.R. Doctor

the Mandaluyong City Medical Center. He trained and became an Instructor for the American Heart Association, teaching courses in Basic, Advanced, and Pediatric Life Support.

Building on these 2 passions of Emergency Medicine and Training, he founded Early Intervention Management Inc. in 2011. The company offers management of medical staff and support for a wide range of medical-related services. It also specializes in training both healthcare professionals and lay persons, teaching anything from CPR and ambulance rescue, to management of common emergencies at home.

In 2012, to further his expertise in Emergency Medicine, he went on a rotation at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona and took a training course in Trauma at the Level 1 Trauma Center at the University of Arizona.

In 2013, he took the helm of Singapore Diagnostics, a diagnostic laboratory established in the country by the Asia Med Labs group that runs large laboratories in Singapore and Malaysia.

Currently he is on the Board of Directors of the Philippine College of Emergency Medicine and plans to continue to do his part in advancing the fields of Emergency Medicine, pre-hospital healthcare response, and diagnostic testing in our country.

Daniel Luchangco, MD

A native of Paris, Olivier Ochanine began music studies in France. He went on to study music in the United States, and expanded his studies to orchestral conducting, taking up graduate studies and attending master classes with some of the best mentors in the US, including Mark Gibson, Gustav Meier, Marin Alsop, Larry Livingston, Robert Baldwin, John Barnett, John Farrer, Don Thulean, and Daniel Lewis. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Conducting from the University of Southern California (USC). In 2009, he began his Doctoral Studies in Orchestral Conducting at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music under Mark Gibson.

A flutist and bassist, Mr. Ochanine earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky. He has also served as auxiliary bassist for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Ochanine has been invited to the California Conductors Institute several times. In 2009, Mr. Ochanine was among a handful of conductors nationally to be invited by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop to conduct in the Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz, California and to participate in a conducting workshop. He has also been a participant in the Cincinnati College-Conservatory’s conducting workshops.

Conductor of The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Since 2010, Mr. Ochanine has been the Music Director & Principal Conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation’s leading orchestra. Under his leadership, the orchestra has performed numerous Philippine premieres. In the Philippines, Mr. Ochanine is an active clinician, leading chamber music masterclasses at schools; he has also led conducting masterclasses for the Cultural Center of the Philippines. As part of his outreach mission, Mr. Ochanine serves as interim resident conductor for the Orchestra of the Filipino Youth, a program geared toward talented youth that stem from severely unfortunate financial backgrounds. Mr. Ochanine is a strong believer in advocacy and heritage, and recently won a campaign he spearheaded to save the best performance hall in Manila - the Philamlife Theater - from demolishment by a large commercial developer. Soloists with whom Mr. Ochanine has appeared include Steven Dibner, Sofya Gulyak, Albert Tiu, Viviana Guzman, Odin Rathnam and Kurt Muroki. Aside from the Philippines, Mr. Ochanine is a regular guest conductor with the Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra in Chengdu, China, and his upcoming international appearances include guest conducting performances in Europe, China and Vietnam.

Olivier Ochanine

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) is the country’s leading orchestra and is widely regarded as one of the top musical ensembles in the Asia-Pacific region. Established on May 15, 1973 as the CCP Philharmonic Orchestra and was initially intended to accompany performing artists at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater). The PPO’s first Music Director was Prof. Luis Valencia with Julian Quirit as Concertmaster. In 1979, then First Lady Imelda R. Marcos asked Prof. Oscar C. Yatco to reorganize the orchestra. Three years later, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra was born with a new vision - to be ranked among the best in the world.

The PPO has performed with many of the world’s renowned conductors that include Helen Quach, Sister Maria Rosalina Abejo, RVM, Yoshinao Osawa, Mendi Rodan, Francisco Feliciano, Basilio Manalo, Rudolf Gerstenbauer, Piero Gamba, Enrique Batis, Sebastian Bereau, and Nicholas Koch, Jae Joon Lee and James Judd. It has also performed with the best foreign and Filipino artists such as Van Cliburn, Wilma Vernocchi, Albert Lysy, Peter Schmalfuss, Daniel Adni, Peter Roesel, Werner Taube, Renata Tebaldi, Judith Engel, Anthony Camden, Rony Rogoff, David Benoit, Sergio Esmilla, Jr., Aurelio Estanislao, Cecile Licad, Raul Sunico, and Lea Salonga.

The PPO has premiered Filipino compositions and has featured works by foreign composers not yet performed in the Philippines. It continues to promote music appreciation through outreach concerts in schools, parishes, government agencies, and underserved communities in Metro Manila and in different regions in the country.

The PPO has toured Europe in 2001 and has participated in the Asia Orchestra Week in September 2002 held at the Tokyo Opera City Hall upon the invitation of the Association of Japanese Symphony Orchestras. It has performed at Bangkok’s National Theater in September 2004 upon the invitation of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand. The PPO also participated in the Shanghai Expo in China last June 2010 and last August 13, 2011 at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, as the closing event of activities commemorating the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Philippine-China diplomatic relations.

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

FRANCESCO NICOLACI Violin

Francesco Nicolaci is 28 years old, graduated with a degree in Music major in Violin in October 2009, at the “Antonio Vivaldi” Conservatory of Alessandria, Piedmont.

From 1999 until 2005, he attended the International Summer Chamber Music Courses of the Xenia Ensemble Association, in Fenestrelle.

In July 2004, he took part in the Summer Stage “Prima Estate-Vallouise” (France), and from 2007 to 2010 he attended the summer music course “Perinaldo Festival” (Imperia, Liguria), where he studied under the former leader of Turin String Quartet Maestro Giacomo Agazzini. In September 2009 and 2010, he attended the Music Courses “Città di Lucca” (Lucca, Tuscany), where he had the chance to study with the well-known Italian soloist violinist Maestro Cristiano Rossi.In July 2010, he attended the Orchestra Training Stage of the Verbano-Cusio- Ossola Youth Orchestra (Domodossola, Piedmont), conducted by Maestro Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli. From February 2010 to September 2011, he trained with one of the violin masters at the “Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo” (Pinerolo, Turin) under the violinist Maestro Adrian Pinzaru.

In August 2011 and 2012, he attended Music Courses in Altopascio (Lucca, Tuscany) and Montespertoli (Florence, Tuscany) studying with the well-renowned solo violinist, Maestro Marco Fornaciari.

In July 2012, he performed with the National Orchestra of the Conservatories, during the annual “Bellini Festival” held in Taormina, Sicily, which featured Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” in the prestigious Greek Theatre of Taormina.In January 2013, Francesco performed for the Turin Festival “Mozart Nacht und Tag”. He has taken part in various chamber music groups (trio, quartet, quintet, etc), performing all over Piedmont.

From L-R Francesco Nicolaci, David Villaverde Navarro, Davide Bottini, Tancredi Celestre and Oscar Doglio.

Quintetto Felix

In March 2013, he completed with full marks the two-year-violin master’s degree at “G.F.Ghedini” Conservatory of Cuneo, and has performed at the “Teatro Toselli”, Cuneo and “Teatro Eliseo” in Rome.

He collaborated with orchestras such as: Orchestra ASSAMCO, University Orchestra of Torino, Orchestra Filarmonica of Saluzzo, Orchestra Classica di Alessandria, Orchestra Flessibile dell’Isitituo Città di Rivoli and Orchestra Bruni di Cuneo. He attended Liceo Classico High School in Rivoli (Turin), and he attended lectures under the Faculty of Philosophy of Turin Univeristy from 2006 and 2007. He has started to study Clarinet as well in April 2013 under the guidance of Masetro M.Mazzone at “G.F.Ghedini” Conservatory of Cuneo.

DAVID VILLAVERDE NAVARROViolin

David Villaverde Navarro is 21 years of age and is from Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, Spain).

Starting from 2011, he has studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Mùsica de Canarias, with the professors Mikulas Kovac, Branimir Histrov, Gonzalo Cabrera (leader of the Second Violins row of the Orquesta Sinfònica de Tenerife).

He attended the masterclasses of the Fundacion Príncipe de Asturias (Oviedo) for two years (2010-2011, 2011-2012), where he was trained by the Director of the String Department of Moscú Conservatory. During the masterclasses, he performed Beethoven Second Symphony, Beethoven Overtures from Egmont and Coriolano, and Tchaikovsky’s main symphonic works.

He performed in two operas with the Orchestra de Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. He performed Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell-Lucia di Lammermoor and by Gaetano Donizetti. He also performed in the main orchestral works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Schumann.

He participated in the Erasmus program for the Academic Year 2013/2014, where he studied at the “G.Verdi” Conservatory of Turin under the guidance of the well-known Italian violinist Guido Rimonda.

DAVIDE BOTTINI Guitar

Davide Bottini was born in Sanremo and is 26 years old. He studied classical guitar at the age of 13 with Maestro Mauro Crespi and studied jazz harmony with pianist Maestro Giacomo Guerra.

In Sanremo, he performed with the Matuziana Orchestra, and has recorded two folk music albums. He played in a reading festival with Vitaliano Gallo, and collaborated with Freddy Colt within the cultural frame of Sanremo working federation.

He pursued and studied classical guitar at the “G.Verdi” Conservatoy of Turin, under the guidance of Maestro Frederic Zigante.

At Piedmont, he played with actress Anna Abate at Turin’s “Circolo dei Lettori” in the frame of numerous readings, including the presentation of the book “Tahrir Square Girl” by Younis Tawfik.

Still at the “Circolo dei Lettori”, he collaborated with Anna Gribaudo, and played at the Turin International Fiera del Libro for a cycle of theater-music performances about Chile and its writers.

He played with Alberto Jona at the Natural History Museum in a performance of put-into-music readings of contemporary literature. He collaborated with Italian actors Filippo Losito and Renato Minutolo with whom he performed compositions in the frame of the Holden School of Writing in various cycles of set-to-music writings for children. Together with the two actors and with T.A.C. Theatre Company, he staged the comical show “Zapping” at Teatro Alfa in Turin.With the help of Professor of Political Philosophy of Turin University Pierpaolo Portinaro, he wrote the musical arrangement for the play “Socrate e Alcibiade”, held at the Theatre of “Cavallerizza Reale” in Turin in the frame of the “Biennale Democrazia”.

He has also performed with numerous jazz ensemble and with the Trio Manouchka, and has deepened his knowledge of popular music with the violinist Sergio Caputo.

Since 2011, he has collaborated with Italian artist Sabina Colonna of the “Orchestra per la Pace Pequenas Huellas” and has performed in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.

TANCREDI CELESTREViola

Tancredi Celestre graduated with a degree in Music major in Viola at the “G.Verdi” Conservatory of Turin under the guidance of the Dutch Violist M. Minne, prior to being a protegé of the well-known Italian Violist Maestro D.Zaltron.

He attended the viola masterclasses of Maestro Zaltron within the frame of Festival Musicale Savinese and Eufonia Music Association.

In 2011, he finished his Master’s Degree in History and Critics of Music Cultures at Turin University. In 2005, he collaborated with Veneto Regional Orchestra conducted by the well-known Italian conductor Maestro D. Renzetti. He attended several summer music courses, such as Perinaldo Festival music masters (Perinaldo, Imperia). He played with numerous chamber groups and orchestras in Piedmont, such as Orchestra Giovanile del Piemonte, Orchestra degli Atenei del Piemonte, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and Orchestra Sinfonica di Rivoli.

In 2013, he performed with the Orchestra Musici Estensi in the “Summerfest” that took place in the U.S.A. and Panama, coordinated and conducted by Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese.

Since 2008, he has taken part in Mat Trio, through which he had the chance to expand his music patterns giving birth to the first 3 works made with the Trio: Timeline, Up and Down and Circus.

He continues to participate as a Violist collaborator to the chamber, string quartet and orchestra classes of “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Turin.

OSCAR DOGLIOCello

Oscar Doglio was born in Pinerolo (Turin, Italy) in 1990 and started serious studies in cello at the age of 6 with the Professor Maestro Marco Robino at “A.Corelli” School Of Music in Pinerolo. He also studied privately with Maestro M.Rostropovich’s and British cellist Elisabeth Wilson, who he keeps having collaborations with.

He attended top level music masters classes such as Xenia Ensemble International Summer Music Courses (Fenestrelle, Turin), with Daniele Gay at Milano Conservatory and the Concorda Chamber Music Course in Ireland (2010).

He continued his music university studies at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Turin.

In 2012 and 2013, he attended masterclasses of world class cellist Dario Destefano and international soloists Natalia Gutman, Donato Renzetti and Alexander Baille, with whom he has collaborated with at the Villalte Music Festival in France.

Oscar Doglio is a cello teacher at the a number of schools, namely the OPS School of Music in Turin, the Scuola Latina in Villar Perosa, the Musicanto School of Music in Piossasco and a volunteer teacher at the Family House in Pinerolo.

He collaborates with various chamber groups and orchestras, such as the Orchestra Stefano Tempia (Turin), Asti Philarmonic (Piedmont), Turin Philarmonic Orchestra and the Giovanni B. Polledo Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded an album collaborating with “Là-Bas” band.

He has taken part in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Piedmont, such as the Torino Jazz Festival, Intesa San Paolo Bank Season Concerts, Reggia di Venaria Season Concerts, Vatican Museums Season Concerts and the MITO festival. He has also collaborated with various music institutions in and around Turin, such as Xenia Ensemble Association, Musicainsieme, Musicaviva, and Teatro Baretti.

Reinabelle Reyes is a Filipino astrophysicist and data scientist. After years of graduate studies abroad, she came back this year to teach and do research in the Philippines. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science of the Ateneo de Manila University.

After graduating Valedictorian from Philippine Science High School in 2001, she received an academic scholarship from the Ateneo de Manila University, as well as a Merit Science Scholarship from the Department of Science and Technology. In 2005, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Physics.

In 2006, she entered a masters-level program in High Energy Physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. It was during that time that she regained her interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and applied to graduate schools in the US.

She obtained her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Princeton University in New Jersey, USA in 2011. Her research work in observational astronomy has received recognition. For her research on “obscured quasars,” Reinabelle was awarded the Chambliss Astronomy

Astrophysicist

Achievement Student Award by the American Astronomical Society during their 211th meeting in 2007. In 2010, her work on confirming Einstein’s general theory of relativity on cosmological scales was published in the premier science journal Nature, and subsequently covered by the national and local media, leading to the moniker “The Filipina who Proved Einstein Right”.

Reinabelle Reyes, PhD

Philippine-born artist Ryan Sy originally started performing at local cafes and bars in Edinburgh, Scotland before moving to Atlanta for university. From Atlanta, he migrated west to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a performer and songwriter. His music is inspired by life experiences, stories consisting of his relationships, and the lessons he’s learned along the way. With the melancholy charm of a young James Blunt and the lyrical wit of a budding Jason Mraz, Sy possesses a style that is an appealing blend of folk, pop, soul and country.

Since returning to the Philippines, Ryan has continued to perform while exploring other avenues in the field of entertainment such as modeling and acting. He is also working to open a series of casual dining restaurants in Manila centered on one of his favorite foods: the grilled cheese sandwich.

Ryan is the grandson of Ramon Sy (co-founder and CEO of I-Bank, CEO of UCPB and the former President and CEO of Bank of America in Manila and Hongkong.) and the son of Raymund Sy (CEO of BCQ Consulting Company) and the former Margarita Dizon. Coming from a family of businessmen and bankers, Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in Corporate Finance and Real Estate from Emory University in Atlanta GA, as well as a degree in International Business from Edinburgh University in Scotland. Prior to pursuing music full-time, he worked as the head accountant for Atlanta’s largest recording studio, Treesound Studios. He has also worked for financial institutions such as HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank.Pop Singer

Ryan was featured on the double-length finale episode of “the Voice Korea” (Season 1), which aired nationally in South Korea on August 2012. In the episode, he is approached by the season winner (Seung Yeon Son) as well as her celebrity coach (Shin Seung Hun), and invited to their Beverly Hills home, where he shares tips on writing music and his experience with the Hollywood music scene. He was also featured on the Filipino/American TV show, “Halo-Halo” which aired in the state-wide television network LA18. He is also featured on several notable music blogs such as “Hype Machine,” “Earplugs Not Included,” “Juniors Cave,” and “A&R Worldwide”. More notably, featured in the LA community-sponsored blog, “The Partnership for a Drug-Free America.”

Quiet and very unassuming, Ryan was featured on the California state-wide radio station, Indie 103.1, where he was interviewed by Hollywood music veteran Sat Bisla. He performs as a sponsored Redbull Soundstage artist, representing the brand during live shows and Youtube videos. Other brand sponsorships include the Australian designer brands: Deacon, and Silent Theory. He has performed in notable Hollywood Venues such as The House of Blues, The Viper Room, The Whisky A Go Go, Cat Club,AMPLYFi, and The Roxy Theater; as well as in music festivals and venues around the US such as the CMJ Music and Film Festival in New York, “Rock for a Difference” in Santa Monica California, and Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ryan Sy was awarded in several songwriting competitions including: “2012 West Coast Songwriting International Song Contest,” “2011 Australian Songwriting Contest (InternationalCategory),” and “Show Me the Music Songwriting Contest 2011”.

Some of his most recent appearances in the Philippines are: Emperador Light TVC, Max’s Chicken viral video commercial, official music video of “Midnight Meetings”, Guest Actor in “the Kitchen Musical” TV series. He is also the official model for the Philippine Fashion Week Fall 2013 and Summer 2014.

Ryan Sy

Hosts

Vince And Patricia Hizon

Sponsors

Beneficiary SchoolsEulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila

PAREF Rosehill

Philippine High School for the Arts

Regional Lead School for the Arts

Rizal Science High School

Sta. Isabel College

St. Scholastica’s College

Technological University of the Philippines

University of Rizal System