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Tag: Cecile Licad

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    How Cecile Licad coped during the pandemic

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Feb 20, 2022 6:59 PM

    Even a world-class pianist like Cecile Licad gets the blues, more so at the height of the lockdowns and quarantines resulting from COVID-19’s spread in 2020. Her home base in New York City wasn’t spared. Her live performances were cancelled.

    Cecile Licad

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    Cecile Licad performs for virtual audiences in Manila Feb. 22

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jan 20, 2022 6:10 PM

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    When pianist Cecile Licad interprets Chopin and Beethoven on February 22, 2022 for Manila audiences, she’ll be performing without her usual live audience.

    Cecile Licad

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    For Filipino musicians, the music didn’t stop during pandemic

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jun 02, 2021 9:32 AM

    Into the 15th month of the lockdown that closed performing arts venues beginning of March 2020, Filipino musicians reflect on how the pandemic affected them not just as musicians but as ordinary human being.

    Cecile Licad, Jeanne Marquez, Jeffrey Solares

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    The Beethoven connections of Filipino musicians

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Feb 18, 2020 12:43 PM

    A grand celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary unfolds in Manila on Saturday February 22 with the country’s leading artists interpreting some of the composer’s works in special recitals.

    Beethoven250th in Manila, Cecile Licad, Mariel Ilusorio

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    The discreet charm of Cecile Licad (even in the midst of a near piano crisis)

    By Elizabeth Lolarga
    Photos by Floyd Evangelista Flores
      |  Dec 15, 2018 1:16 PM

    On pianist Cecile Licad’s sixth and second to the last appearance in a grueling tour of Manila, Iloilo, Nueva Ecija, Baguio and finally Roxas City, Prof. Ben Tapang of the University of the Philippines Baguio and Guacamole Productions introduced her as the “sublime goddess of music” who needed no introduction.

    Cecile Licad

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    Cecile Licad triumphs anew in Elvis Presley country

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Feb 28, 2018 8:12 AM

    Pianist Cecile Licad’s winning streak from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Empress Theater in Vallejo, California surfaced anew in USA’s far south when she was greeted with a close to 10-minute standing ovation after her Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 with the North Mississippi Symphony under the baton of Steven Byess.

    Cecile Licad, Mississippi Symphony

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    Standing ovation for Licad’s Carnegie Hall recital

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jan 21, 2018 11:30 AM

    Pianist Cecile Licad returned to the Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) Thursday night (January 18) with a predominantly New York audience giving her a rousing standing ovation.

    Carnegie Hall, Cecile Licad

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    Cecile Licad holds homecoming concert in between landmark recitals in the U.S.

    Sep 10, 2015 5:48 AM

      By PABLO A. TARIMAN WORLD-CLASS Filipino pianist Cecile Licad will once again define herself as a musician when she plays Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Spokane Symphony in Washington on September 19 and 20 and in Manila on October 2, 2015 with the ABS CBN Philharmonic under the baton of Gerard Salonga. […]

    Cecile Licad

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    Rosario Licad: A mother’s love goes beyond rave reviews

    May 11, 2014 9:32 PM

    PABLO A. TARIMAN On her birthday (May 11),  Cecile Licad was working  for her recital in Portland on May 16, where she has prepared a unique and adventurous program. The celebrated pianist’s vast interpretative power will see her perform 19th and early 20th century works by American and European composers Mason, Gottschalk, MacDowell, Ornstein, Busoni […]

    Cecile Licad, Rosario Licad

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    Performing artists express desire to help typhoon victims

    Nov 13, 2013 10:42 PM

      By PABLO A. TARIMAN THE typhoon that killed hundreds in the Visayan region elicited shock and an outpouring of sympathy from the country’s leading performing artists. “It is horribly sad,” said pianist Cecile Licad who expressed willingness to participate in any fundraising concert. The pianist once again received standing ovations for her performance of […]

    Arthur Espiritu, Cecile Licad, Cho Liang Lin, Lisa Macuja, typhoon Yolanda

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