Piano Evening - German Embassy Manila

30th Philippine-German Month 2011
- February 04 –
“An Evening of Guitar Music”
Carsten Linck - Guitar
Lester Demetillo – Guitar
with TABS
- February 11 –
“UST Night”
Ronan Ferrer – Tenor
Armela Fortuna – Soprano
Najib Ismail – Piano
Peter Porticos - Piano
Heliodoro Fiel - Piano
30th Philippine-German Month
featuring
“An Evening of Guitar Music”
- February 18 –
“Chamber Music”
Lester
Demetillo
The Muntinlupa Chamber Winds
Michael Rex O. Bacarra, Conductor
- February 25 –
“Choral Music”
The De La Salle University Chorale
Rodolfo F. Delarmente – Conductor
Carsten
Linck
Juliet H. Villegas
Executive Producer
Thea Perez-Prosia
Host
with TABS
Armando Derecho, guitarist
Jeffrey Malazo, guitarist
a joint cultural project of the
Friday, 04 February 2011, 6:00 p.m.
San Marcelino St., Paco, Manila
Lester Demetillo – Guitarist
Lester Demetillo is one of the Philippines' leading classical guitar performers and
teachers. He has been on the faculty of the University of the Philippines College of
Music since 1980. On the invitation of other Asian universities, he has given master
classes in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. He serves as an examiner for the
Associated Board of Royal Schools in Indonesia and continues to give lessons at the
Asian Institute for Liturgical Music. For the UP Guitar Ensemble, which he directs,
he has arranged numerous orchestral pieces. His transcriptions stretch the
instrument's technical limits to the utmost, while retaining each score's original music
line. As an artist, Lester has performed at the American Colleges in Chicago, Sejong
Hall in Korea, Australia's Melbourne Concert Hall and the Chuo Center Hall in
Osaka, Japan, among others. In the Philippines, he averages 50 concerts a year.
Carsten Linck– Guitarist
Carsten Linck studied with Prof. Hans Gräf at the Folkwang Musikhochschule, Essen
and with Prof. Maritta Kersting at the Robert Schumann School, Düsseldorf. At the
same time he studied chamber music with Prof. Iwona Salling in Essen, where he
passed his exams with distinction. Additional artistic guidance was given to him by
Prof. Karl Scheit (Vienna) and Prof. Per-Olof Johnson (Malmö).
He plays a repertoire from the early Renaissance to first performances of contemporary
compositions, where he uses different instruments for works of different style epoques.
Besides the common 6-string concert guitar used for works after 1900, he plays
Renaissance and Baroque music on an 11-string alto guitar made by Georg Bolin.
More than once Carsten Linck has been a laureate of “Jugend musiziert”, Germany’s
national award for young musicians, as well as of the first prize at the “Internationaler
Bubenreuther Musikwettbewerb”. For his artistic work he received the culture award
of the city of Essen in 1992.
TABS
The Tabs Trio is a group of three of the most prominent classical guitarists in the
country, Lester Demetillo, Armando "Tabo" Derecho and Jeffrey Malazo. Each has
contributed to the Philippine classical guitar scene in a unique and invaluable way,
earning
the
respect
of
many
generations.
Its history stems from that of the UP Guitar Orchestra. Lester Demetillo, one of the
Philippines' leading classical performers and a professor in the University of the
Philippines College of Music, organized the UP Guitar Ensemble, a group of nine
promising classical guitarists and the first guitar ensemble in the country. The group
impressed the musical scene with its debut concert, which featured Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - scored for nine guitars. The ensemble then performed in
major concerts in the country and toured in countries such as France, England, Italy,
Germany,
Scotland,
Spain,
the
United
States
and
Australia.
The group became a quartet at one point with Lester, Tabo and Jeffrey as the nucleus
and successfully produced two records; The UP Guitar Ensemble "Classical Music"
and
"Original
Pilipino
Music".
In 2009, the three regrouped and formally named their group TABS since the trio all
uses Armando "Tabo" Derecho guitars. Tabo's masterfully handcrafted classical
guitars have earned the respect of serious classical guitar players in the Philippines
and in the rest of the world. Tabo has demonstrated that the Filipino luthier is capable
of producing world-class guitars that produce exquisite, balanced tones at good volume
but at reasonable prices. Since then, the Tabs Trio continues to perform while
maintaining the prestige of being the top contributors of the classical guitar scene
today.
Programme
Philippine National Anthem
German National Anthem
Welcome Remarks
Ms. Juliet H. Villegas
Executive Director, NPDC
Executive Producer, Paco Park Presents
Mr. Jürgen Thomas Schrod
First Secretary, Cultural Affairs Section, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
DUO Lester Demetillo & Carsten Linck
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wiener Sonatine Nr. V after KV 439b
(1756 - 1791)
1. Allegro
2. Menuetto Trio. Menuetto da capo
3. Adagio
4. Allegro
Ferdinando Carulli - Duo in G-major op. 34,1
(1770 - 1841)
1. Largo
2. Rondo
SOLO (Carsten Linck)
João Pernambuco - Sons de Carilhões (Maxixe Choro) (1883 - 1947)
Manuel M. Ponce - Scherzino Mexicano (1882 - 1942)
C. de Guzman - Ang Tangi Kong Pag-Ibig arr. by J. Valdez
Jorge Gomez Crespo - Norteña für guitar (1900 - 1971)
Adrian Patiño - Nevando está für guitar
TABS Trio
Chaconne on a Theme by Händel - Junichi Nihashi
Andante Cantabile ( String Quartet no.3 (op.3 no.5) - Joseph Haydn
Moderate ( Sonata "Württemberg" 1) - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(transcription by Lester Demetillo)
Bakya mo Neneng - Santiago Suarez (transcription by Lester Demetillo)
Barong Tagalog - Santiago Suarez (transcription by Lester Demetillo)
Bayan Ko - Constancio de Guzman (transcription by Lester Demetillo)