Lucrecia kasilag national artist 1989

In 1993, the UNESCO International Music Council named five International Artists of the World—Kasilag the only woman and person of color among the recipients....

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

Filipino composer and pianist

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (31 August – 16 August )^[1] was a Filipino composer and pianist.

She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

National Artist of the Philippines, 1989; Outstanding Filipino Award for the Arts from Jaycee Senate International, 1991.

Lucrecia R. Kasilag was an educator, composer, performing artist, administrator and cultural entrepreneur of national and international caliber.

In 1993, the UNESCO International Music Council named five International Artists of the World—Kasilag the only woman and person of color among the recipients.

Kasilag was proclaimed National Artist for Music in 1989.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Biography

Lucrecia "King" Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La UnionPhilippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin teacher.^[2]^{:&#;87–88&#;} She was Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher.

The second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura Villanueva, during which time performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old.^[2]

Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was educated at Paco Elementary School and graduated valedictorian in She then transferred to Philippine Women's U