Christmas at The Kiss started months ahead with the
UP Singing Ambassadors rehearsing at Ang Bahay ng Alumni,
for their run of Christmas performances.
Their carols welcomed us each time we stepped out of the cafe, and we knew we just had to share it with you!
Join us, on the week of the traditional UP Lantern Parade, as we celebrate the Season with good food and good music.
Mezzanine Floor
Ang Bahay ng Alumni
UP Diliman, Quezon City
December 17, 2007, Monday
Merienda cena will be served from 5:00 PM.
Show starts at 5:45 PM
P350.00 per head
Tickets are available at
The Chocolate Kiss Cafe
For inquiries and reservations, email us at goodstuff[at]thechocolatekiss.com
The U.P. Singing Ambassadors (UPSA), one of the finest Filipino choirs today, is the University's Official Performing Group for Choreographed Choral Music and the Resident Choir of the College of Arts and Letters (CAL). UPSA engages itself in performances of major choral works, interpretation of all types of music from the Classicals to the most modern genre. 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.
UPSA has been part of many national and international historic events; appeared on local and international television; done vocal back ups for the country's top artists and most recently with international artist Josh Groban; sung for the weddings of the country's most respected families and events of top companies in the Philippines; and performed in some of the world's most exclusive music halls like the Arezzo Petrarca Concert Hall, the Salone Cinquecento Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the American Church in Paris and the Sydney Opera House.
UPSA has represented Arezzo, ITALY and the PHILIPPINES in the 14th European Grand Prix (EGP) for Choral Singing 2002 when it won the Grand Prize (2001) in the most prestigious Guido d' Arezzo Choral Competitions -- one of the world's top six (6) major competitons in Europe. It has won Grand Prizes, First Prizes and other Top Prizes in some of the world's most prestigious Choral Competitions and Festivals in Arezzo & Gorizia in ITALY; Tours, FRANCE; Varna, BULGARIA; Cantonigros and Torrevieja, SPAIN; Neuchatel, SWITZERLAND; Wernigerode, GERMANY; Arnhem, The NETHERLANDS; Maasmechelen, BELGIUM; Trencianske Teplice, SLOVAKIA; Pardubice & Prague, Czech Republic.
UPSA engages itself in fundraising and outreach performances for the less privileged -- the aged, the sick, the orphaned, street and autistic children.
ED MANGUIAT, Conductor
Ed Manguiat, winner of the Dirigentenpreis (Conductor's Award) in the 2nd Johannes Brahms Int'l. Choir Competition in GERMANY, is the Founder and Conductor of The U.P. Singing Ambassadors (UPSA).
As a member of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM), Ed has attended the 1st and the 4th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, AUSTRIA and Sydney, AUSTRALIA, respectively. Here, Ed attended Choral workshops and master classes under world-renowned choral musicians like SWEDEN's Eric Ericson.
As a student of the U.P. College of Music, he studied vocal pedagogy under Aurelio Estanislao, Fides Cuyugan-Asencio, Andrea O. Veneracion and Elmo Makil; and choral conducting under Rey T. Pagiuo, Elmo Makil, Flora Rivera, and Joel Navarro.
He also enrolled at the UST Conservatory of Music.
Ed composes and does choral arrangements. His most recent works include one of the themes in the internationally-acclaimed film "Magnifico". Ed also holds a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from the University of the Philippines.
His outstanding achievements earned him the pride of his own hometown as he received the Golden Achievers Award during the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Lipa City in 1997, and the Most Outstanding Lipeño in the Field of Music in 1993.
Source: www.upsa21.org
