National Artist For Music In The Philippines. Abdulmari asia imao, 73, is the first moro, and the only one to date, to be honored as national artist of the philippines. He is the first national artist of the philippines for music.
Namely, music, dance, theater, visual arts, literature, film, broadcast arts, and architecture and allied arts. National artist for music (2014) ramon pagayon santos, composer, conductor and musicologist, is currently the country’s foremost exponent of contemporary filipino music. Rewarded as the country’s national artist in 2001, he was one of the most successful commercial figures on the local art scene from the 1960s until his death from cancer in 2005.
January 29, 1980 felipe padilla de leon • composer • conductor • scholar • born:
The award is jointly administered by the cultural center of the philippines and the national commission for culture and the arts and is conferred by the president upon recommendation. The order is jointly administered by the national commission for. Gawad pambansang alagad ng sining), and are inducted into the order. Born to chinese immigrants, ang kiukok is the pioneer of philippine modern figurative expressionism.
