Honorata de la Rama-Hernandez

(January 11, 1902 – July 11, 1991), commonly known as Atang de la

Rama, was a singer and bodabil performer who became the
first Filipina film actress.
Atang de la Rama was born in Pandacan, Manila on January 11, 1902.
By the age of 7, she was already starring in Spanish zarzuelas such
as Mascota, Sueño de un Vals, and Marina. At the age of 15, she
starred in the sarsuela Dalagang Bukid, where she became known for
singing the song, Nabasag na Banga.[2]
During the American occupation of the Philippines, Atang de la Rama
fought for the dominance of the kundiman, an important Philippine folk
song, and the sarsuela, which is a musical play that focused on
contemporary Filipino issues such as usury, cockfighting, and colonial
mentality
Antonino R. Buenaventura
vigorously pursued a musical career that spanned seven decades of
unwavering commitment to advancing the frontiers of Philippine music.
In 1935, Buenaventura joined Francisca Reyes-Aquino to conduct
research on folksongs and dances that led to its popularization.
Buenaventura composed songs, compositions, for solo instruments as
well as symphonic and orchestral works based on the folksongs of
various Philippine ethnic groups. He was also a conductor and restored
the Philippine Army Band to its former prestige as one of the finest
military bands in the world making it “the only band that can sound like
a symphony orchestra”.

This once sickly boy who played the clarinet proficiently has written
several marches such as the “Triumphal March,” “Echoes of the
Past,” “History Fantasy,” Second Symphony in E-flat, “Echoes
from the Philippines,” “Ode to Freedom.” His orchestral music
compositions include Concert Overture, Prelude and Fugue in G Minor,
Philippines Triumphant, Mindanao Sketches, Symphony in C Major,
among others.
Leandro V. Locsin
(August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994) was a Filipino architect, artist,
and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating volume
and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was
fond of modern painting and Chinese ceramics. He was proclaimed
a National Artist of the Philippines for Architecturein 1990 by the
late President Corazon C. Aquino.

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He was born Leandro Valencia Locsin on August 15, 1928, in Silay, Negros
Occidental, a grandson of the first governor of the province. He completed his
elementary education De La Salle College in Manila before returning to Negros
due to the Second World War. He then returned to Manila to finish his secondary
education in La Salleand proceeded in taking up Pre-Law before shifting to pursue
a Bachelor's Degree in Music at the University of Santo Tomas. Although he was a
talented pianist, he later shifted again to Architecture, just a year before graduating.
He married Cecilia Yulo, and one of their two children is also an architect.
Cesar Torrente Legaspi
(April 2, 1917 – April 7, 1994) was a Filipino National Artist in painting. He
was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in
the 1960s. His early (1940s–1960s) works, alongside those of peer,
Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and
dehumanization of beggars and laborers in the city. These include Man
and Woman (alternatively known as Beggars) and Gadgets. Primarily
because of this early period, critics have further cited Legaspi's having
"reconstituted" in his paintings "cubism's unfeeling, geometric ordering of
figures into a social expressionism rendered by interacting forms filled
with rhythmic movement".

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Francisco "Franz" Arcellana
(September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet,
essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 6,
1916. Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer early in his
childhood. His actual writing, however, started when he became a
member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years.
Arcellana continued writing in various school papers at the University
of the Philippines Diliman. Later on he received a Rockefeller
Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa
and at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
(June 29, 1929 - August 24, 1999) was a Filipino choreographer,
theater director, teacher, author and researcher on ethnic dance. She
was the founding director of the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk
Dance Company and was named National Artist of the Philippines for
dance in 1988.[1][2][3]
She worked to translate folk dancing into the realm of theater. She
adapted indigenous dance traditions to the demands of the modern
stage, and performances of her works received international attention4
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag
(31 August 1918 – 16 August 2008)[1] was a Filipino composer and
pianist. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino
instruments into orchestral productions

Lucrecia “King” Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La

Union, Philippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag, Sr., a
civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a
violin teacher.[2]:87–88 She was Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher. The
second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman.
Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura Villanueva, during which time
performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at
a student recital when she was ten years old.
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo
(April 28, 1911 – December 28, 1978) was a Filipino National Artist in
the visual arts. He is also fictionist, a playwright and editor.

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in

the Philippines. He was a member of the Saturday Group of artists
(also known as the Taza de Oro Group), and was one of the pre-war
Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernist artists founded by Victorio C.
Edades in 1938. Famously known for his triumvirate of with neo-
realists Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, his works reflected
the harsh realities of his country after the Second World War. However,
many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the beautiful Philippine
landscapes through his skillful use of fierce and bold colors.
Andrea Ofilada Veneracion
(or Ma'am OA; July 11, 1928 – July 9, 2013)[1] was
a Filipina choral conductor and a recipient of the 1999 National Artist
for Music award.[2] She founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in
1963.[3] She was also an adjudicator in numerous international choral
competitions and was an active force in choral music before her
massive stroke in 2005.

She earned her Bachelor of Music degrees in Piano and Voice at

the University of the Philippines Diliman, graduating cum laude. She
was a lyric soprano soloist in various Oratorio works and in the Opera
Stage. She was also a very accomplished pianist and accompanist and
was the accompanist of National Artist for Music, Jovita Fuentes for a
number of years. Apart from being an extraordinary musician, she was
also an exceptional athlete as a competitive swimmer. She was part of
the Philippine swimming team who first competed internationally in
Hong Kong.
Jerry Navarro Elizalde
(22 May 1924 – 10 June 1999) was a Philippine artist.[1] He studied in
the University of the Philippines, Manila as a Ramon Roces Publication
Scholar in 1947. The following year he transferred to the University of
Santo Tomas, he studied fine arts with a major in painting. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951. While studying at the
university he was also an art editor for the university newspaper The
Varsitarian. His wife is sculptor Virginia Ty-Navarro.
Carlos Lozada Quirino
(14 January 1910 – 20 May 1999) was a Philippine biographer and
historian.

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a famous filipino. He is best known for his early biography of Jose Rizal.
He also wrote several works the Philippine history and biographies of
President Manuel Quezon and the painter Damian Domingo. In 1997
he was recognised as a National Artist of the Philippines for Historical
Literature.
José Montserrat Maceda
(January 31, 1917 – May 5, 2004) was
a Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist.

Maceda was born in Manila, Philippines, and

studied piano, composition and musical analysis at École Normale de
Musique de Paris in France. After returning to the Philippines, he
became a professional pianist, and later studied musicology
at Columbia University, and anthropology at Northwestern University.
Arturo Rogerio Luz (born November 20, 1926) is a Philippine
National Artist awardee in visual arts. He is also a
known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator. A founding
member of the modern Neo-realist school in Philippine art, he received
the National Artist Award, the country's highest accolade in the arts, in
1997.
Luz has produced art pieces through a disciplined economy of means.
His early drawings were described as "playful linear works" influenced
by Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalist,
geometric abstracts, alluding to the modernist "virtues" of competence,
order and elegance; and were further described as evoking universal
reality and mirrors an aspiration for an acme of true Asian modernity.
Néstor Vicente Madali González (September 8, 1915 –
November 28, 1999) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist
and poet. Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for
Literature in 1997.

González wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for
the Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle. His first published
essay appeared in the Philippine Graphic and his first poem
in Poetry in 1934. González made his mark in the Philippine writing
community as a member of the Board of Advisers of Likhaan: the
University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, founding editor
of The Diliman Review and as the first president of the Philippine
Writers' Association. González attended creative writing classes
under Wallace Stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford
University. In 1950, González returned to the Philippines and taught at
the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippine Women's University and
the University of the Philippines (U.P.). At U.P., González was only one
of two faculty members accepted to teach in the university without
holding a degree.
Levi Celerio
(April 30, 1910 – April 2, 2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist
who is credited to writing not less than 4,000 songs. Celerio was
recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines for Music and
Literature in 1997.
He is also known for using the leaf as a musical instrument which led
to being recognized as the "only man who could play music using a
leaf" by the Guinness Book of Records[citation needed]. This led to him
making guest appearance in television shows recorded outside the
Philippines.
Aside from being a musician, Celerio is also poet. He was also a film
actor who appeared in various Philippine films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Rolando Santos Tinio
(March 5, 1937 – July 7, 1997) was
a Filipino poet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, essayist and educator.

Rolando Tinio is a Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature.

He was born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila on March 5, 1937.[5] As a
child, Tinio was fond of organizing and directing his playmates for
costumed celebrations. He was an active participant in the Filipino
movie industry and enjoyed working with Philippine celebrities who he
himself had admired in his childhood. Tinio himself became a film actor
and scriptwriter. He is often described as a religious, well-behaved and
gifted person. Tinio graduated with honors (a "magna cum laude"
achiever) with a degree in Philosophy from the Royal and
Pontifical University of Santo Tomas at age 18 in 1955 and an M.F.A.
degree in Creative Writing:Poetry from the State University of Iowa.
Wilfrido Maria Guerrero
(January 22, 1911 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino playwright, director,
teacher and theater artist. Guerrero wrote well over 100 plays, 41 of
which have been published. His unpublished plays have either been
broadcast over the radio or staged in various parts of the Philippines.
His plays can be found in various anthologies: 13 Plays (first published
in 1947), 8 Other Plays (1952), 7 More Plays (1962), 12 New
Plays (1975), My Favorite 11 Plays (1976), 4 Latest Plays (1980),
and Retribution and eight other selected plays (1990). Guerrero also
published a family memoir, The Guerreros of Ermita (1988).
Guerrero taught and trained many notable figures in the Philippine
Performing Arts: Behn Cervantes, Celia Diaz-Laurel, Joy Virata, and
Joonee Gamboa.
Felipe Padilla de León
(May 1, 1912 – December 5, 1992) was a Filipino classical music
composer, conductor, and scholar.

Before becoming a musician he took various odd jobs to support his

family, such as a shoe polisher, carabaoherder, carriage driver, and
vendor of various items. In 1927, he took up Fine Arts at the University
of the Philippines, but he had to abandon his studies to make a living.
He played the trombone in cabarets and circuses, and later worked as
an assistant conductor of the Nueva Ecija High School Orchestra,
where he started composing music. To improve his composing skills he
again enrolled to the University of the Philippines, and graduated in
1939 with a diploma of music teacher and conductor. Much later, he
continued his studies under Vittorio Giannini at the Juilliard School in
New York.
Catalino Ortiz Brocka
(April 3, 1939–May 22, 1991) was a Filipino film director. He is widely
regarded as one of the most influential and significant Filipino
filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. He co-founded the
organization Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), dedicated to
helping artists address issues confronting the country, and the Free the
Artist Movement[1][2][better source needed] and was a member of the Coalition
for the Restoration of Democracy.[3]
He directed landmark films such as Tinimbang Ka Ngunit
Kulang (1974), Maynila sa mga Kuko ng
Liwanag (1975), Insiang (1976), Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1984),
and Orapronobis (1989). After his death in a car accident in 1991, he
was posthumously given the National Artist of the Philippines for
Film award for "having made significant contributions to the
development of Philippine arts."
Lucio D. San Pedro
(February 11, 1913 – March 31, 2002) was a Filipino composer and
teacher who was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines for Music
in 1991. San Pedro came from a family with musical roots and he
began his career early. When he was still in his late teens, he
succeeded his deceased grandfather as the local church organist. By
then, he had already composed songs, hymns and two complete
masses for voices and orchestra. After studying with several prominent
musicians in the Philippines, he took advanced composition training
with Bernard Wagenaar of the Netherlands. He also
studied harmony and orchestration under Vittorio Giannini and took
classes at Juilliard in 1947.