GUTIERREZ. Performs in “Revelry: Live, Love, Dance.”
Chino Gutierrez will be showcased in the solo violin concert, “Revelry: Live, Love, Dance,” on Nov. 30 at the Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO Tower I, Paseo de Roxas, Makati City. He will play the music of, among others, Eugene Ysaye, Cesar Franck, Igor Stravinsky and Antonin Dvorak.
The 23-year-old violin virtuoso will also perform Jose Rizal’s little-heard composition, “La Deportacion,” inspired by his exile in Dapitan, where he set up an eye clinic for the poor. Chino will be accompanied by pianist Corazon Pineda Kabayao.
The concert is a fundraiser to enable the former child prodigy to fly back to Munich to complete his Bachelor of Music degree at the State Academy of Music and Theatre. Chino has been winning awards since he began his training at age 7 under Coke Bolipata. His mentors include Olga Voitova-Bloch and Christopn Poppen. Conductor Oscar Yatco considers him the Cecile Licad of the violin.
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His vision is for classical violin-playing to become a lucrative career in the Philippines, so local practitioners don’t have to go elsewhere to make a living.
To support Chino’s cause, please watch his concert or donate to Joaquin Maria S. Gutierrez’s Metrobank (Roces ave., Quezon City) account number 481-3-48109963-4. If you live abroad, the Swift code is MBTCPHMM, or call Lambie Gutierrez at 218-1864 or 0915-1892998.
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