TeresaBarrozo

TERESA BARROZO received her first formal training in music and classical guitar at the age of sixteen under renowned classical guitarist Lester Demetillo. From

TERESA BARROZO (b. 1982, Manila, Philippines) is a Composition major from the University of the Philippines College of Music (UPCMu). She has studied under Prof. Ma. Christine Muyco, composer-conductor Josefino Chino Toledo and composer-ethnomusicologists Dr. Jonas Baes and Dr. Ramón Pagayon Santos. She has also studied film scoring under acclaimed film composer Nonong Buencamino at the Asia Pacific Film Institute. Barrozo served as the Chairperson of the University of the Philippines Composers of New Music (CONEMUS) and is presently a member of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), Asian Composers League (ACL) and ACL Philippines. She was a featured composer in the 2004 "Outstanding Music Students Concert" of the UP College of Music and is currently an arranger of the world-renowned UP Concert Chorus (UPCC) . Last 2003, Barrozo participated in the 23rd Asian Composers League Conference and Asian Music Festival in Tokyo, Japan where her work Paglingon was premiered by Russian cellist Dimitry Feygin. Last 2005, she participated in the 25th Asian Composers League Conference and Music Festival in Bangkok, Thailand where her electroacoustic music composition bigKAS received its world premiere. Barrozo currently collaborates with filmmakers, choreographers and other multimedia artists bringing contemporary classical music closer to the Filipino audience.

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