MANILA, Philippines—A program featuring works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Jean Sibelius takes place on Friday, November 14 at 8 pm at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater) with oboist Reynato Resureccion Jr., clarinetist Ariel Sta. Ana, bassoonist Adolfo Mendoza and French Horn player Jay-ar Mesa performing with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Olivier Ochanine.
Featured in the program are Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante,” “Haydn’s Symphony No.97” and “Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2.”
Reynato M. Resurreccion Jr. is an assistant principal oboist of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.
He won several prizes from the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA), twice for solo instrument, and first prize for chamber music category with the UST Woodwind Quintet. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of the late Professors Ludovico Mendoza and Mariano Mendoza.
He also studied under Professor Tsuji Isao, a Principal Oboist of the Yumiuri Symphony Orchestra, in Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, Japan where he obtained his Masteral Degree Major in oboe performance.
While in Japan, he was a member of the Elisabeth University Orchestra and Symphony band, a member of the International Music Friendship Club, and was one of the twelve winners in the Asian Music Student’s Competition held in Tokyo.
In August of 1996, he was chosen to participate to the Asian Youth Orchestra’s concert tour in Asia as an English Horn player. He was also the Principal Oboist of the Philippine Youth
Orchestra and the UST Symphony Orchestra. At present, he is a faculty member of the UST Conservatory of Music and an active member of the Clarion Chamber Ensemble.
Ariel Sta. Ana is a two-time winner of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (Namcya), first taking the second prize in 1998 and winning first prize in 1992. He received his musical training at the UST Conservatory of Music under Prof. Dalmacio Cruz and at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, Japan earning his Master of Music degree in Clarinet Performance in 1996, with Prof. Tadayoshi Takeda as his mentor.
In 1999, he received his second Master of Music degree from the Elisabeth University of Music in Orchestra Conducting under the tutelage of Prof. Kazukiyo Inoue. He was a member of the Manila Symphony Orchestra in 1988 and was a concertmaster of the Asean Youth Symphonic Band held in Singapore in 1992.
In Japan, he has been a member of the Hiroshima Wind Orchestra for two years. He was also one of the founding members of the Hiroshima International Music Friendship Club and performs regularly with the International Music Festival in Hiroshima, Japan. Ariel is the principal clarinet player of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) and the coordinator of the Woodwind Department of the UST Conservatory of Music.
Adolfo O. Mendoza finished his Bachelor of Music in Bassoon performance at the University of Santo Tomas’ Conservatory of Music under Prof Romeo Verayo and Prof Arnaldo Custodio. He studied with the NHK principal bassoonist Prof. Koji Okazaki at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima Japan for his Master’s Degree. He was also a full scholar at the Hongkong Academy for performing arts under Prof Kam Sui, principal bassoonist of the Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra.
He won second place at the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (Namcya) Solo Bassoon Category C in 1992. He was also member of the UST Woodwind Quintet, which won the first prize in the Namcya Chamber Music Category in 1993.
He was an active member and the principal bassoonist of the UST Symphony Orchestra, UST Symphonic Band and the UST Woodwind Quintet. He was also a winner of the International Students Music Competition for solo instrument in Tokyo, Japan.
Mendoza joined the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) in 1996 which performed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and in the United States of America. He was also a member of the AYO Woodwind Quintet which performed at the White House in Washington, D.C.
He was the bassoonist for the musical “Miss Saigon” for its Manila run at the Cultural Center of the Philippines from September 2000 – March 2001 and in Hong Kong and Singapore from March to August 2001. He was featured in the CCP’s Filipino Artists Series in September 2002 with Mary Ann Espina, and as soloist of the PPO in the same year.
He was the featured artist at the 9th San Agustin International Music Festival with Spanish Organist Miguel Gonzales in 2007.
Jay-ar Mesa took up Creative and Performing Musical Arts Major in French horn in the University of the Philippines, Diliman under the tutelage of Leopoldo Lopez. In 2002, he started playing for Banda 99 in Binangonan, Rizal under the baton of Victor Bolante, where he became a conductor in 2008.
He also became a member of the University of the Philippines (UP) Symphonic Band in 2005, principal player of the UP Symphony Orchestra in 2006, and assistant principal French
horn player of the Manila Symphony Orchestra in St. Scholastica’s College, Manila from 2006 to 2008.
He has been chosen as a delegate and principal French horn player in the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble (Sayowe) from 2006 to 2010, in the Asian Youth Orchestra in 2012, and in the Myanmar Symphony Orchestra in 2013. Currently, he is a member of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ticket prices are P1,500 / P1,200 /P800 / P500 / P300, with discounts available to students, senior citizens and groups. Subscription packages are also available for eight (8) or four (4) shows. For inquiries and subscriptions, please call the CCP Marketing Department (832-1125 loc. 1804), the CCP Box Office (832-3704) or Ticketworld at National Bookstore (891-9999).
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