Renowned and Living Filipino Composers

• • Conductor, composer, and a professor of music composition and theory
  • Pangkat Kawayan, a folk bamboo ensemble founded by his father.
  • He studied music at the UP College of Music, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, and Cleveland Institute of Music.
  • Vibrancy often displaying the musical traditions of Southeast Asia


  Josefino "Chino" Toledo
• Among Chino Toledo's notable works are:

  • Alitaptap
  • Kantus: Tagbanwa for Orchestra
  • Sigaw
  • Kwaderno Para sa Kwerdas
  • Ekontra: Kongruo: Iunktum
  • San Andres B
• • Born in Los Baños, Laguna
  • A composer of interdisciplinary works and an ethnomusicologist
  • He studied at the University of the Philippines and Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau with Ramon Santos, Jose Maceda, and Mathias Spahlinger.
  • Unexplored combination of instruments, volces, and other sound-producing objects such as empty bottles, empty soda cans, plastic cups, tree branches, dried leaves, and iron nails


  Jonas Baes
• Among Jonas Baes's notable works are:

  • Awit ng Ibon
  • Mga Pagninilay
  • Daluy
  • Patangis-Buwaya
• • Born in Manila, Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab (b. 1954), famously known as Ryan Cayabyab
  • He studied piano when he was four years old and violin when he was ten years old. He graduated at the UP College of Music and taught there for almost two decades.
  • Among his popular works are "Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika," "Kumukutikutitap," "Da Coconut Nut," and "Paraiso." Also included in his roster of works are the musicals Katy, Lorenzo, Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo, Magnificat, and the opera Spoliarium.