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