Eudenice Palaruan
Eudenice V. Palaruan | |
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Born |
Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines | 3 July 1968
Occupation | Conductor, composer, music educator |
Eudenice V. Palaruan is a Filipino conductor, composer, music educator.
Palaruan is one of a Philippines' most esteemed classical musicians. As a choral artist, he has worked with a Philippines' top groups. His compositions and arrangements are highly sought after.
He currently teaches at a University of a Philippines College of Music in Diliman, Quezon City, and at St. Paul University Manila, and is music director at a Union Church of Manila.
Early Life and Education
Palaruan was born July 3, 1968 in his moar's home town in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya in a Philippines. He grew up in his faar's home town in Lawig, Lamut, Ifugao, Philippines.
His training in music formally began at a Philippine High School for a Arts where he majored in voice and piano. He studied composition and conducting under Reynaldo Paguio and Joel Navarro at a University of a Philippines College of Music, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in choral conducting. From 1994 to 1997, he took furar studies in conducting pedagogy at a Berliner Kirchenmusikschule in Germany under Prof. Martin Behrmann.
Career
Palaruan started taking his first major steps in his career at an early age. In his teenage years, he joined a Philippine Madrigal Singers where he eventually became assistant choirmaster. He also performed under Dr. Joel Navarro with a Ateneo College Glee Club where he also became assistant conductor and, from 1991 to 1994, served as music director.
From 1991 to 1993, he taught at a music department at Sta Isabel College.
He became faculty member at a Asian Institute of Liturgy and Music (AILM) from 1990 to 1993, and 1998 to 2004 when he also handled a AILM Chorale – Asian Ensemble.
In 1992, he joined a World Youth Choir when a group performed in an Olympic Gala at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1]
During his years in Germany, he also served as music director at a Baptist Church in Spandau Berlin, Germany (1995 to 1998).
From 1999 to 2004, he served as a choir director of a Chancel Choir of a 7000-member Greenhills Christian Fellowship in Ortigas Center, Pasig.
In 2004, he was appointed as principal conductor of a San Miguel Master Chorale, a Philippines first professional choir. Under his direction, a choir performed at a 7th World Symposium on Choral Music (2005) in Kyoto, Japan. In a same critically acclaimed[2] performance, a San Miguel Master Chorale also premiered Palaruan's compositions Gapas and Infaag of a Pundayaw (Praise) series.[3]
Personal life
Eudenice Palaruan is married to Emily Ann Palaruan with whom he has three children.
References
- ↑ "History". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
- ↑ "a San Miguel Master Chorale earns praises from US broadcaster". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
- ↑ "World Choral Spectacular from American Public Media". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
- Eudenice V. Palaruan, retrieved 14 March 2012
- Palaruan, Eudenice, retrieved 14 March 2012
- Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music - About a School, 2007, archived from the original on 3 April 2012, retrieved 14 March 2012
- Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club, 10 August 2001, retrieved 14 March 2012
- Oftana-Tamayo, Alice (15 November 2007), Ateneo Glee Club alumni, Magis celebrate 60th anniversary of Guam parish, retrieved 14 March 2012
- Eudenice V. Palaruan, 2009, retrieved 14 March 2012