ANGEL MATIAS PEÑA

ESTEEMED CLASSICAL AND JAZZ COMPOSER
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  Events

 September 28, 2010

UP Jazz Extravaganza.  Abelardo Hall of the University of the Philippines, Diliman 

 August 23-27, 2010

Guitarra 2010, University of Santo Tomas 1st International Guitar Festival.  Featuring the premiere of works by Bayani Mendoza de Leon, Agustin Castilla-Avila, and Angel Matias Peña. 

Phil Am Life Auditorium (United Nations Avenue, Manila) 

 June 7, 2010

Big Band Jazz Concert - Tribute to Angel Peña. 

Club 1007 (Timog Avenue - corner Ybardolaza St, Quezon City) 

June 5, 2010 

Manila Symphony Orchestra Concert - opens its 2010 concert season "Philippine Festival".  The concert will feature the works of Mr. Peña and other Filipino composers Nicanor Abelardo, Lucio San Pedro, and Sacramento. 

Phil Am Life Auditorium (United Nations Avenue, Manila) 

featuring Melchora Regina Medina (violin), Virginia Laico Medina (piano), Maestro Arturo Molina (conductor). 

March 15, 2010 

Chamber Music Hawaii's Spring Wind Quintet premieres Pena's "Movements for Wind Quintet" at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 7:30 pm.  Schweitzer, Moffitt, Butin, Janusch, Parrish 

February 8, 2009 

A Concert of Peña's Orchestral Works - "A Man and His Music", Orchestral Works of Angel Matias Peña

December 7-9, 2007 

3rd Annual Fil-Am Jazz Festival.  Catalina Bar & Grill Jazz Club, Hollywood, CA

Angel M. Peña will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award

June 13, 2007

"A Man and His Music",  Book launching of Maestro Angel M. Peña's Autobiography (Ateneo de Manila University Press). 

4PM to 6 PM, Escaler Hall, Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines.  Click here to view campus map.

There will be special performances from The Executives Band, The U.P. Jazz Ensemble, The Kasilag Guitar Trio, and The U.P. Double Bass Trio.

 

March 16, 2007

"Philippine Sketches", Featuring the Premiere Performance of Peña's Guitar Works Featuring The Kasilag Guitar Trio: Benchito Carino, Edgardo de Dios, Phil Valdez. Click here to view the program.
Santa Isabel College, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines 

February 9, 2007

"Second Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra" 
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, Oscar Yatco, Conductor
Click here for some photos after the concert 

December 14, 2006

Cycles of Time, A Jazz Concert in Honor of Maestro Angel M. Pena
Abelardo Hall Auditorium, University of the Philippines, College of Music

November 5, 2006

"Ugnayan" CD is now available for purchase

October 5, 2006

Return Trip to Manila from California

October 3, 2006

Lecture "History of Filipino Jazz" Filipino-American History Month Lecture Series
City College of San Francisco, Dr. Leo Paz, Chairman, Philippine Studies Program.

October 1, 2006

"Romance & Jazz" Musikahan, A Musical Tribute To Maestro Angel M. Pena
Performed and Presented by the Alumni and Friends of the UST Conservatory of Music, Manila.
Saint Anne Parish Hall,  Union City, CA.
Click here for a link to a slideshow c/o Angelito Agcaoili's website.