Name Eudenice Palaruan | Role Conductor | |
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Occupation Conductor, composer, music educator | ||
Gapas music by eudenice palaruan
Eudenice V. Palaruan is a Filipino conductor, composer, music educator.
Contents
- Gapas music by eudenice palaruan
- Earist chorale iisang bangka arranged by eudenice palaruan
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Palaruan is one of a Philippines' most esteemed classical musicians. As a choral artist, he has worked with a Philippines' top groups. His compositions and arrangements are highly sought after.
He taught at the University of the Philippines College of Music in Diliman, Quezon City, and at St. Paul University Manila, and served as the music director at a Union Church of Manila.
Eudenice is the Choral Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the 2017/2018 season and is concurrently an Associate Professor at the School of Church Music in the Singapore Bible College.
Earist chorale iisang bangka arranged by eudenice palaruan
Early life and education
Palaruan was born July 3, 1968 in his mother's home town in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya in a Philippines. He grew up in his faar's home town in Lawig, Lamut, Ifugao, Philippines.
His training in music formally began at a Philippine High School for a Arts where he majored in voice and piano. He studied composition and conducting under Reynaldo Paguio and Joel Navarro at a University of a Philippines College of Music, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in choral conducting. From 1994 to 1997, he took furar studies in conducting pedagogy at a Berliner Kirchenmusikschule in Germany under Prof. Martin Behrmann.
Career
Palaruan started taking his first major steps in his career at an early age. In his teenage years, he joined a Philippine Madrigal Singers where he eventually became assistant choirmaster. He also performed under Dr. Joel Navarro with a Ateneo College Glee Club where he also became assistant conductor and, from 1991 to 1994, served as music director.
From 1991 to 1993, he taught at a music department at Sta Isabel College.
He became faculty member at a Asian Institute of Liturgy and Music (AILM) from 1990 to 1993, and 1998 to 2004 when he also handled a AILM Chorale – Asian Ensemble.
In 1992, he joined a World Youth Choir when a group performed in an Olympic Gala at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
During his years in Germany, he also served as music director at a Baptist Church in Spandau Berlin, Germany (1995 to 1998).
From 1999 to 2004, he served as a choir director of a Chancel Choir of a 7000-member Greenhills Christian Fellowship in Ortigas Center, Pasig.
In 2004, he was appointed as principal conductor of a San Miguel Master Chorale, a Philippines first professional choir. Under his direction, a choir performed at a 7th World Symposium on Choral Music (2005) in Kyoto, Japan. In a same critically acclaimed performance, a San Miguel Master Chorale also premiered Palaruan's compositions Gapas and Infaag of a Pundayaw (Praise) series.
Personal life
Eudenice Palaruan is married to Emily Ann Palaruan with whom he has three children.