The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates Women's Month with guest conductor Dr. Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng on the podium at its upcoming concert on March 17, 2023, 8:00 PM at the Metropolitan Theater.
The concert program will be highlighted by a selection of pieces by Philippine female composers namely Marie Jocelyn Marfil’s Pyagsawitan Wedding and Harvest, National Artist for Music Lucrecia R. Kasilag’s Festival from Philippines Scenes, and Denise Santos’s The Light of Extreme Darkness.
Also to be performed are Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music featuring a 16 voice choir, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92.
Dr. Shangkuan-Cheng is the incumbent president of the Philippine Choral Directors Association, and the artistic director of the Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival. She is an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Music, teaching conducting for both graduate and undergraduate music students. She is currently the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Choral Council and the Asia Choral Association.
Shangkuan-Cheng has a degree in music from the University of the Philippines, a master’s from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and a doctorate degree in musical arts from the University of Michigan. Conductor Shangkuan-Cheng has performed with various international orchestras in South Africa, Germany, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Spain, Vietnam, Portugal, and Singapore.
She has gained numerous awards including the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Award from the Yale School of Music, the Margot Fassler Award and the Hugh Giles Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for her conducting, first prize at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Graduate Conducting Competition. She participated as a fellow at the Levi Barbour Fellowship from the University of Michigan.
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