Philippine High School for the Arts Scholarship

Philippine High School for the Arts
National Arts Center, Mt Makiling, Los Baños 4030, Laguna
Website: www.phsa.edu.ph
Email: phsa@laguna. net
Tel/Fax: (049)5365971 to 73 and 5362862

CREATIVE WRITING
DANCE (BALLET AND FOLK)
MUSIC (INSTRUMENT AND VOICE)
THEATER ARTS
VISUAL ARTS

We aim to find the best.
Are you one of them?

Join the 2009 Annual Nationwide Search
for Young Arts Scholars
(per Department of Education Memorandum No. 429, series of 2008)

Applicants must be Filipino citizens with outstanding ability in an art discipline - Creative Writing, Dance (Ballet and Philippine Folk), Music (Instrument and Voice), Theater Arts, and Visual Arts; Grade VI or VII pupils graduating this School Year 2008-2009; of above-average intelligence; proficient in oral and written Filipino and English; without any debilitating illnesses; willing to study in a residential high school; and determined to pursue a college degree in Architecture, Fine Arts, Music, Dance, Theater Arts, Journalism or any related courses upon graduation from the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA). Successful applicants will be awarded free tuition fee, free board and lodging, individual and group classes with Master Teachers, monthly stipend, plus the chance to represent the country and the school in international festivals, competitions and exchange programs.

Application forms and schedule of auditions are available from the PHSA website at www.phsa.edu.ph.

Deadline for application nationwide: 31 December 2008

All applications and documents must be sent directly to ANSYAS 2009, Philippine High School for the Arts, National Arts Center, Mt Makiling, Los Baños 4030, Laguna. For details, please email Ms Emma L Izon at phsa@laguna. net or call (049)5365972.

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PHSA Applications for SY 2008-2009

The Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), a government-run
special secondary school for young artists, is now accepting
applications for full special secondary education scholarship for SY
2008-2009 intake. PHSA conducts screening of applicants annually to
search for artistically gifted and talented children who will be
given special training in their chosen art field of inclination. The
school's programs are intended to ensure a continuing source of
artists of excellence and leaders in the conservation and promotion
of the Filipino artistic and cultural traditions.

The successful applicant is awarded free tuition, free board and
lodging, a monthly stipend, classes with Master Teachers, plus the
chance to represent the country in local and international
competitions and exchange programs. The grant is renewable every
year for four consecutive school years upon satisfaction of academic
and non-academic requirements.

Applicants must be Filipino citizens with outstanding ability in an
art discipline, i.e. Music (instrument and voice), Dance (ballet and
folk), Theater Arts, Visual Arts, and Creative Writing; graduating
Grade VI or VII pupils this School Year 2007-2008; of above-average
intelligence; proficient in oral and written Filipino and English;
without any debilitating illness; willing to study in a residential
school; and determined to pursue a college degree in Architecture,
Fine Arts, Music, Dance, Theater Arts, Journalism or any related
courses upon graduation from PHSA.

The application form and brochure are inclosed for your reference.

All fully accomplished application forms and other requirements must
be sent to Director III Reynaldo O. Wong, Chair, ANSYAS 2008,
Philippine High School for the Arts, National Arts Center, Mt
Makiling, Los Baños 4030, Laguna. Applicants will be notified by
the PHSA to report for assessment and live audition at a specified
Regional Test and Audition Center (RTAC) scattered all over the
country. The exact location of the RTAC and date of examination and
audition will be announced by the PHSA directly to the applicant by
mail or email and in leading newspapers.

For enquiries, please visit the PHSA website at www.phsa.edu. ph or
email Director III Reynaldo O. Wong at yergnow@yahoo.com or at
reynaldo_ong_wong@yahoo.com.ph or call +63917.545.6653 or
+63917.544.0013.

We are hopeful that this appeal will merit your preferential
attention and prompt action in the interest of national development
through art and culture education for the artistically gifted and
talented young Filipino children.

From:
Reynaldo Ong Wong
Director III
Philippine High School for the Arts
NAC, Mt Makiling, College 4031
Los Baños, Laguna

Website phsa.edu.ph
Email yergnow@yahoo.com
Alternate reynaldo_ong_wong@yahoo.com.ph

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Paco Park presents The Bicaldo Sisters

THE BICALDO SISTERS OPENS
Paco Park Presents’
JUNE SKED

Paco Park Presents goes instrumental this Friday, June 01, 2007, starting at 6:00 p.m. with bandurria player Rowena Bicaldo and violinist Gemma Bicaldo as featured guests. Joining them are pianists PWU Dean Harold Galang and Madeline Jane Banta. This concert kicks-off a month-long partnership with the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), in Makiling, Laguna, which is celebrating its Ruby Jubilee this year. Ms. Thea Perez is program host.

The Philippine High School for the Arts, nestled on the slopes of Mt. Makiling in Los Banos, Laguna, is a specialized secondary level institution for young students who are particularly gifted in the arts. Its scholarship program is given to "exceptionally gifted and talented children in the arts who will be given special training in their chosen field of interest." The school is so situated to afford its gifted young students concentration in their study in a healthy unspoiled environment.

The Bicaldo sisters – Rowena and Gemma, and pianist Harold Galang are alumni of PHSA. Rowena Bicaldo completed her Diploma in Creative and Performing Musical Arts (DCPMA) Asian Music in 1998 and her Bachelor’s degree in Musicology at the University of the Philippines College of Music in Diliman, Quezon City. She is an expert in playing many traditional musical instruments, among them, the Maguindanao and Maranao kulintang, Manobo ahong, Kalinga bamboo jaw’s harp, polychordal zither, nose flute and lip-valley flute, Japanese koto, Indonesian gamelan and angklung. She is a music assistant and bandurria player of the Bayanihan Philippines Folk Dance Company since 1998, and is halfway through her graduate studies at the Philippine Women’s University taking up Ethnomusicology. Gemma Bicaldo graduated from PHSA in 1996, under the tutelage of Mrs. Rizalina Buenaventura, the wife of the late National Artist Col. Antonino Buenaventura. She took her Bachelor of Music degree at the UST Conservatory of Music, under Prof. Sergio Esmilla, Mr. Reginald Pineda and Mr. Proceso Yusi. She was the concertmaster of the UST Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 1998 and was a member of the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra and the San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra. She is, at present, a member of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and one of the violin instructors at the Foundation for Culture and the Arts of Angono. Harold Galang is presently the Dean of the Philippine Women’s University College of Music. He is a concert pianist, choir conductor, music educator and a piano collaborating artist. He finished his Master’s degree in 1995 at the Musashino Music Academy in Tokyo, Japan and took up piano master classes at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. A winner of three national music competitions – National Music Competitions for Young Artists, the Piano Teacher’s Guild of the Philippines Concerto Auditions and the First Philippine Chopin Piano Competitions, Galang is presently a member of the Commission on Higher Education Technical Panel for Music and Music Education.

For this Friday’s concert, these three PHSA alumni have prepared the following programme: MAYON FANTASIA DE CONCERTO (Buencamino); PRAELUDIUM AND ALLEGRO and LIEBESFREUD (Kreisler); CAVATINA (Raff); LEGENDE (Wieniasky); SARUNG BANGGI (Arr: Romero); BUNDOK BANAHAW (Arr: Biares); HABANERA FILIPINA NO. 2 (Vallejo); ILANG-ILANG (Molina); MOONLIGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES (Matias); CAVATINA (Abelardo); HATINGGABI (Molina) and KUNG HINDI MAN (Abelardo).

*All skeds may be subject to change without prior notice.

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PHSA Dulaang Sipat Alumni Production

SIX DEGREES
A Sipat Lawin Ensemble presentation as
part of the Philippine High School for
the Arts' 30th anniversary featuring
2002 Palanca award-winning plays in the
full length category.

Liza Magtoto's
AGNOIA (based on the short story
"Horoscope" by Eli Guieb III)

and

George de Jesus III's
SALA SA PITO

Playdates:
May 11, 7:30 pm
May 12, 3pm, 7:30 pm
May 13, 3pm
Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio
Theater)

Tickets are sold at Php200 (regular) and
Php150 (student price)

To purchase, just text Abs- 09156284277

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