Michael Dadap
VIEW EVENT DETAILSClassical Guitarist, Composer & Conductor
Filipino virtuoso guitarist performs original works and arrangements for guitar by Filipino composers. Dadap’s mission is to promote, and advocate Filipino culture, and music to all concertgoers.
The infusion of different rhythmic cadences of Filipino dialects, non-western tonal intervals of regional tongues, and influence of Spanish music create the uniqueness of Filipino songs and song forms. Michael Dadap will share the diversity of the Filipino soundscape through performance of folk songs, Haranas, Kundimans, and famous love songs.
This performance has 2 sections: 6:30-7:15 and 7:45-8:30
About the Artist:
Michael Dadap, born in Hinunangan, Leyte to a family of musicians, started out as a jazz and folk musician before turning to classical guitar. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, with a major in philosophy in 1971, he came to New York to study music theory and classical guitar at Mannes College of Music, and studied composition and conducting at Julliard. His successful Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1974 was followed by extensive concert tours in the United States, Europe, and the Far East.
Mr. Dadap dedicates a large portion of his career to the appreciation of Filipino folk music, pioneering the awareness of the Philippine Rondalla in the United States. He is the founding music director of the Iskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla of Boston Massachusetts. He travels annually to the Philippines to perform concerts, teach, and give guitar master classes and workshops on a 14-string Philippine folk instrument, the Bandurria. Mr. Dadap is a strong advocate for developing and building a high level Orchestra of Plucked Instruments, (Orchestra sin Arco) also known in his country as the Rondalla. His first published book, A Complete Method for the Virtuoso Bandurria, is now widely used among folkloric Instrumental Ensembles in the Philippines and here in the United States. His song cycle, Mga Awit Ng Pagibig, scored for Voice, Cello and Piano was featured in the 39th Season gala of Ballet Philippines in October 2008 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
This performance is in conjunction with the exhibition Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms, on view September 11, 2015 through January 3, 2016.
Event Details
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021