New York-based husband-and-wife couple of guitarist Michael Dadap and violinist Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma will perform in San Francisco on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Veterans War Memorial Bldg. Their concert entitled “Romancing with Violin and Guitar Music” will feature guitar and violin solos and guitar-violin duets both classical and native Philippine music. It is a benefit for the Filipino WW II veterans and for the Children’s Orchestra Society of New York.
Michael Dadap came to New York in 1971 to study music theory and classical guitar at the Mannes College of Music, and composition and conducting at Julliard. His successful Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1974 was followed by extensive concert tours in the United States, Europe, and in the Far East.
His busy schedule as an active solo and chamber music concert artist as well as the Artistic /Music Director, and principal conductor of the Children's Orchestra Society (COS) in New York, has not hindered Mr. Dadap's passion for the classical guitar. He has published and recorded CD albums including original works & arrangements of Visayan songs for
Mr. Dadap has devoted a large portion of his career to the appreciation of Filipino folk music, pioneering the awareness of Filipino Rondalla in the United States. He is the founding music director of theIskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla of Boston, Massachusetts. He travels annually to the Philippines to concretize, teach, and give workshops on the Bandurria as a virtuoso instrument at the Silliman University, in Dumaguete.soprano and guitar.
For more information about the Ma-Dadap Concert, please call Rudy Asercion at (415) 724-0641 or Rodel Rodis at (415) 334-7800.