Eudenice Palaruan

Eudenice V. Palaruan
Eudenice Palaruan
Born (1968-07-03) 3 July 1968
Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
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

  1. ↑ "History". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  2. ↑ "a San Miguel Master Chorale earns praises from US broadcaster". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  3. ↑ "World Choral Spectacular from American Public Media". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
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