"One Voice, One Heart"
P.J. Lhuillier Foundation
University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors (UPSA)
PhilAm Life Auditorium (U.N Avenue)
Dec 19, 2006 - 7:00pm
The P.J. Lhuillier Foundation will hold a fundraising concert entitled: One Voice, One Heart December 19, 2006, 7:00pm at the PhilAm Life Auditorium.
Proceeds of the concert will go to the beneficiaries of the Foundation such as the Scholars of The Ambassador Philippe Lhuillier Nationwide Scholarship Program, Señorita Edna D. Lhuillier Scholarship Program, and other Special Scholarship Programs of the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation and the Cancer Institute of PGH. In addition to these beneficiaries, proceeds will also be used to fund the ongoing projects of the Foundation like the Adopt-A-Barangay Water, Food and Medical Assistance Project, Adopt-A-Barangay Sanitation and Information Project and Nationwide Create-A-Business Contest. These projects are geared towards strengthening the Foundation's advocacy on Health, Education, Entrepreneurship and Direct Intervention in Selected Cases.
As the social arm of the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, PJL Foundation, now on its sixth year, has remained faithful to its Vision of Poverty-Alleviation through its various cause-oriented projects. With Founder, Ambassador Philippe Lhuillier and President Jean Henri Lhuillier, the Foundation has continuously supported various charities and has led its own poverty-alleviating activities.
Featured performer for this fund raising concert is the University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors (UPSA), the first and only Asian choir that has won the Grand Prize in the AREZZO 2001 Competitions - considered the toughest of the world's top six (6) European Choral Competitions. The 2002 ALIW Awardee for Best University Choir, the UPSA also garnered the Top Entertainer Award as the most Outstanding University Choir in the 2004 Who's Who in the Philippines Consumer's Choice Awards. UPSA recently concluded its 5th European Tours and Competitions 2005, where they again brought home a Grand Prize, 3 First Prizes and other special awards.
UPSA engages itself in performances of major choral works, interpretation of all types of music from the Classicals, international songs, spiritual, gospel and inspirational songs, kundiman and ethnic - to Broadway, old English favorites, and Filipino pop and even rock music. Cultural dances from the ethnic North and South form part of its international repertoire. These they have performed internationally in Europe, Africa, USA and Asia.
The UPSA Outreach Program forms part of its worthy endeavors by sharing its music through choral workshops throughout the country, helping in fund-raising activities for the less privileged, and visits to institutions like hospital wards, homes for the aged and orphanages.
With One Voice and One Heart, the P.J. Lhuillier Foundation and the UP Singing Ambassadors aim to fulfill the essence of this fundraising concert: to help not only the materially destitute but to also uplift those who are poor in spirit.
For more details, please call 895-0753 or email: pj_lhuillier.foundation@yahoo.com
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