Friday night (Nov. 22) at the Samsung Theater in Circuit Makati, violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. wore many hats in the ecstatically received Music Movies Magic concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Gerard Salonga.
Violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. reaches a full musical cycle when he reprises the Sibelius violin concerto as soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic under the baton of Chinese conductor Haoran Li.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photo by Kiko Cabuena WEDNESDAY night at the CCP, violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. treated his recital audience to an evening of Bach and Beethoven and with a contemporary piece written by an American pianist thrown in. The first piece is a Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV1005.
MANY Filipinos do not know that 19-year-old violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr., the latest star soloist of the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, is the first Filipino Outstanding Academic Achievement awardee of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Education Awards Program.
