The IMUTHIS PROJECT

CAST

CORAZON NEGRO

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CAMILLE LOPEZ MOLINA - MAESTRA

 

Camille studied voice at the University of the Philippines College of Music. She obtained her Professional Diploma in Music, majoring in Opera Studies, from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1996 as a scholar of the British Council. She then proceeded to Vienna, Austria where she studied Gesang until 2001 at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien.  She has sung in opera, operetta, oratorio, music theater, zarzuela, concerts and recitals. She has performed with noted orchestras, conductors and collaborative artists both here and abroad. She was a member of the Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna. She is a three-time ALIW AWARDEE for Best Female Classical Performer. She has served as Chairman of the Voice Competitions of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). She is one of the founders and artistic director of VIVA VOCE VOICE WORKSHOP, an intensive summer voice camp, the first of its kind in the Philippines. She was music director and vocal coach of productions by Dulaang UP, St. Scholastica's College Manila, Manila Symphony Orchestra, FilFest Music Festival and Repertory Philippines. She has also directed several operas for chamber performances namely La Traviata Exposed, La Bohême, and Cosi Fan Tutte.  

 

She is Founder and Artistic Director of VIVA VOCE VOICE LAB, which has assisted and organized workshops and masterclasses of such artists and pedagogues as world renowned soprano and voice teacher NELLY MIRICIOIU, PROF. SUSAN WATERS of the Guildhall School of Music and Dramatic Arts in London, and acclaimed Filipino-American tenor ARTHUR ESPIRITU. She has attended voice workshops and symposia held in the United States, Canada and London by world renowned vocal pedagogues and scientists such as Janice Chapman, Paul Kiesgen, Joan Boytim, Richard Armstrong, Donald Miller, Dr. Ron Morris, Seth Riggs, Dr. Ingo Titze, Dr. Katherine Verdolini Abbott, and Dr. Robert Sataloff, among others. She has taught at the Asian Institute of Liturgical Music (AILM), Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music and the University of the Philippines College of Music. Her students have been accepted for further studies by the Korean National University for the Arts in Seoul, the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal College of Music and Mountview Academy of Theater Arts in London, as well as the Manhattan School of Music, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University in the United States. They have also been winners and finalists in the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA), the Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition, the Llangollen International Eistedfodd Pendine International Voice of the Future in Wales, the Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition, and Singapore Lyric Opera’s ASEAN Vocal Competition.  She and her husband, tenor Pablo Molina have been team teaching all their students from the beginning. At present, she is a member of the faculty of St. Scholastica’s College School of Music and the Philippine High School for the Arts.  

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IONA VENTOCILLA-BORJA - ILLUMINADA

 

Iona Ventocilla-Borja, a two-time NAMCYA winner, earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Music major in Voice, and Music Education at St. Scholastica’s College under the tutelage of Camille Lopez-Molina and Pablo Molina.Iona has participated in masterclasses and workshops by Arthur Espiritu, Nelly Miricioiu, Susan Waters, Kevin McMillan, and Pedro de Alcantara on the Alexander Technique.

 

She has essayed lead roles in operas such as Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte with the Manila Symphony Orchestra, Maria Clara in Dulaang UP’s production of De Leon’s Noli Me Tangere, and Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme, and performed in various concerts with the Manila Symphony Orchestra as soloist. She has also been performing with the Viva Voce Voice Lab since 2010.

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ERVIN LUMAUAG - HONORATO

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Ervin Notes Lumauag holds a bachelor of music degree in voice from the University of the Philippines College of Music.He qualified for the 6th Seoul International Music Competition in April 2010 in Seoul, Korea. He was given the Encouragement Award in the 7th Bangkok Opera ASEAN International Singing Competition 2015 and performed with the Siam Sinfonietta in May 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. Ervin played the role of Matias/Dimalupig in the world premiere of the longest Filipino opera to date, Carmela Sinco and Ed Maranan's Diwata ng Bayan with the University of the Philippines Orchestra at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in February 2017.

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He currently teaches voice in the extension program of the UP College of Music and his very own Sing Free- Ervin Lumauag Voice Online. He’s also a voice coach and choral clinician. He had conducted coaching sessions and workshops to various choirs all over the country.

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NOEL AZCONA - PADRE

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Azcona is a recipient of the Santo Domingo scholarship grant  and a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance under Maestra Salvation Opus Yñiguez and Gloria Coronel, Philippines. He was assistant music director of the internationally-acclaimed University of Santo Tomas Singers for 10 years (2002-2012).  He is currently the vocal coach of the CEU Singers Manila and Mapua Cardinal Singers.Noel Azcona proved his credentials as a soloist when he opened the Best of the Philippines National Concert Series which debuted in 2005 with performances of Verdi, Handel, Beethoven, Rossini and Mozart. Between 2003 and 2010, Azcona was a featured soloist in the 28th, 31st, 33rd and 35th Las Pinas International Bamboo Organ Festival under notable Philippine conductors Eugene Castillo, Chino Toledo, Jonathan Velasco and Eudenice Palaruan, singing works by Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Rossini, Dubois and Haydn.In 2003, he was invited to perform the Oratorio by Richard Einhorn entitled Voices of Light under Maestro Lim Yau in the Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore. As a seasoned featured soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra's concert series, he has appeared in Carmina Burana (2003), a Christmas concert of Bach's Magnificat (2004), Dvořák's Ten Biblical Songs under Maestro Eugene Castillo (2007), and in the PPO’s 2009 and 2010 concert series with Maestro Jae-Joon Lee. He has performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Robert Ryker (2009) and in Aula Simfonia Jakarta under Dr. Stephen Tong (2011).

Opera credits include the Philippine Opera Company's production of opera excerpts entitled OPERA NOW in 2005 and 2006, as Alcindoro and Marcello in La Bohème, Ping in Turandot, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Dr. Falke inDie Fledermaus, and Eugene Onegin. He made his international operatic debut in Japan in a supporting role of Maramba's Lord Takayama Ukon (2003) and subsequently in Manila in the title role. In October 2007, he performed the title role of Tchaikovsky's well-loved opera Eugene Onegin at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. Most recently he took on the role of Baron Duphuol in La Traviata (2012) Escamillo in Carmen (2012), Count Monterone in Rigoletto (2014), Elias in Noli mi Tangere (2014).He is also a featured soloist of the Hongkong Bach Choir singing Carmina Burana (2014), Weinachts oratorium (2013) and the 9th symphony of Beethoven (2011) under conductor ,Jerome Hobermann. Featured soloist in the Taipei International Choral Festival as soloist for Carmina Burana (2014) under conductor Gabor Hollerung.Azcona has also collaborated with Filipino and international artists and conductors such as Gilopez Kabayao, Corazon Pineda Kabayao, Otoniel Gonzaga, Maestro Oscar Yatco, Julian Quirit, Sir Robert Ryker and Eleanor Calbes and has attended masterclasses by Eddye Pierce-Young and Brady Allred. He has taken part in ten world concert tours as assistant conductor and soloist covering major cities of Europe, USA, Mexico, Canada and Asia.He is currently a faculty member of the Centro Escolar Conservatory of Music and a faculty member in the extension program of University of Santo Tomas, Conservatory of Music.

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BAYANI / MESIYAS 

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NINA HAYUMA HABULAN GELLADUGA

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Nina was a scholar of Philippine High School for the Arts and then at the University of the Philippines Majoring in Dance for her studies. She then briefly joined the Philippine Ballet Theatre as a corps de ballet before deciding to become an independent dance artist. She has performed several choreographies and created some of her own at Green papaya art projects, E-dance for Wi-Fi body dance festival and with Airdance company in their season performances. In 2006, She joined her husband in Hong Kong who works at HK Disneyland Company as a dancer. 

 

In Hong Kong, She first joined Osage Gallery as a coordinator.  And has since collaborated with Osage, recently their HKRunway; HKAct3 projects in 2017, 2019 and 2022. In 2008, she joined Jean M. Wong School of Ballet as a ballet teacher and now teaches at Red Shoe Dance School but still create a few small choreographies and dance films in collaboration with her husband outside of the school. 

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JEAN MARC CORDERO​

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Jean Marc is a dancer and a choreographer based in Kiel, Germany. He is currently working under the director and chief choreographer of Ballet Kiel Yaroslav Ivanenko. Before moving to Europe in 2017, he was a Principal Dancer of Ballet Philippines. He essayed lead roles in Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Peter Pan and Albrecht in Giselle which he was awarded as ‘Best Lead Male Performer in a Classical Ballet Performance’ by the Philippine Stage Awards 2013. He also has worked with local and international choreographers doing contemporary and modern pieces. He has also been awarded in his performance in Crisostomo Ibarra as ‘Best Male Performer in Full Length Modern Ballet Performance’ by the Phil Stage Awards.

Jean Marc premiered his latest choreography ‘Der Wahrsager’ (The Fortune Teller) at the main stage of Theater Kiel last April 2021. The same piece was also invited to the 32nd Edition of the Florence Dance Festival in Florence, Italy. In the first quarter of 2021, he was tasked by Theater Kiel General Intendant Daniel Karasek to choreograph for the Operetta ‘Der Vetter Aus Dingsda’ which premiered in April 2021. He has created short pieces ‘Mutation’, ‘F.E.A.R.’, ‘Escape’, ‘Aiaia’ and ‘Babayi’ for Ballet Kiel’s Junge Choreographen *Innen since 2018. His work ‘Farbe’ is part of Ballet Kiel show “Solitaire” which is still showing this season 2021-22.

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Aside from dancing and choreographing, Jean Marc has the passion for teaching. Upon his graduation from his Bachelor of Performing Arts Major in dance at the De La Salle College of St. Benilde in Manila, he taught Boys technique, Children's Creative Movements and Advanced Ballet and Modern Classes at the Ballet Philippines Dance School. He also taught subjects ‘Dance Criticism’ and ‘Dance Forms’ in the Dance program of De La Salle College of St. Benilde. He continues to collaborate and create with the students of Academy Kiel in Germany and he also teaches Company Ballet Classes with Ballet Kiel.

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SARAH SAMANIEGO

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Sarah Maria Samaniego is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor in Music major in Dance (cum laude). As an Artistic Collaborator of the UP Dance Company, she has essayed vast major roles of the company's repertoire in the Philippines and abroad. She is a prize winner of the 2012 Wifi Body Dance Festival New Choreographers Competition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines with her work “Nalaruan” (In Playing), which was featured at the 2013 Yokohama Dance Competition X Dance Showcase in Yokohama, Japan. She is a recipient of the 2018 Asia, Africa & Latin America Dance Exchange residency program, hosted by the Seoul Section of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO in Seoul, South Korea. Currently a dance faculty at the Guang Ming College-Manila, she is finding and harnessing the potential of dance and dancers to express truths in myriad ways and forms.

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BAYANG BARRIOS 

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BJ JOSE,  JANNO CASTILLO, CJ CORREA

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ERNEST SARINO MANDAP, SARAH , RHOSAM PRUDENCIADO JR., GIAN CARLO NAVARRO, ANGELO FLORES, ELCAN ROMAGUERRA, DRANREB BELLEZA, REESE GABRIELLE ALVIA, JAN CHRISTIAN GARCIA & THE MAKATI SANLIBONG BUHAY 

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