Josefino toledo biography and compositions

JOSEFINO CHINO City

Professor 12 / Prof Emeritus

Department:

Composition and Hypothesis

Admin Position:

Chair, Composition dominant Theory Turnoff
Music Executive, University endowment the State Symphony Orchestra (UPSO)

Education:

University of description Philippines - BM
Cleveland Institute be snapped up Music - MM
Paris Conservatory - Perfectionment

Josefino Chino Toledo is a composer-conductor. He is currently the Executive Director of Miriam College        Center for Applied Music, and a full professor of music composition and   theory at the University of the Philippines. Toledo is the founding music director of Metro-Manila Concert Orchestra (MMCO) and the            Grupo 20/21, a modular music ensemble.

Chino studied music at the University of the Philippines, Cleveland Institute of Music – Case Western Reserve University in the U.S., and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris.

As a conductor, he is noted for premiering works of Filipino composers as well as other Asian composers and has conducted concerts in Japan, Indonesia, Australia, and China. He was the associate artistic director and conductor of the first Asia-Europe Music Camp by the Asia-Europe Foundation.

Toledo’s own compositions are regularly performed in international festivals, concerts and recitals in US, Canada, Lithuania, Brazil, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, and almost all Asian countries.

Josefino Chino Toledo, a professor and chair of the department of composition and theory and a University Artist III (2009-2020) at the University of the Philippines, is also music director/conductor of U.P. Symphony Orchestra, Metro Manila Concert Orchestra and Kwerdas Filipinas Symphonic Rondalla. He was artistic director of the 2018 Banaue International Music Composition Competition. 

His works have been performed at festivals and in concerts and recitals in Australasia, Europe, America, and Asia. His choral music has had widespread exposure in international competitions and festivals in Slovenia, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Hungary, Italy, and Wales. Recent commissions include “Hoy! Bata” (soprano and orchestra), by the Japan Foundation—Asia Center (for IlluminArt Orchestra and conductor Tomomi Nishimoto); competition pieces for the National Music Competition for Young Artists; “Dinggin: Maging Ang Mga Kwerdas ay Sumasamo ng Kapayapaan” (Listen: Even The Strings Are Pleading for Peace), for the International Rondalla Festival in the Philippines; and “Tangis” (Lament), for Erhu and String Quartet. 

The 2018 premier performance at the Lincoln Center (New York) of his work “Agos” (for narrator and chamber ensemble) was describ