Redentor Romero
Conductor
Romero was hailed by the New York Post as an "excellent conductor". He was the country's first and only international conductor. International soloists who had performed under his baton include Valery Klimov, Malcolm Frager, Janos Starker, Philip Entremont, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Krainev, Yevgeny Malinin, and Raizza Bobriniova. Romero graduated from the University of the Philippines and studied further at the San Francisco Conservatory. He finished high school at Arellano (Manila North) High School.
Philippine Portraits 1980
Composer: Romero, Redentor
Arranger: Redentor Romero Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Redentor Romero Album: Redentor Romero conducts the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A beautiful night with the PPO, Barbieri, Fernandez sisters
By Leonor O Goguingco February 6, 2004, 8:00am
Manila Bulletin
A “beautiful night” PPO resident conductor Ruggero Barbieri called it – and that it was, indeed, featuring a concert organized by Mayor Jejomar Binay and Dra. Elenita Binay and the Makati City Government – one which was to display the musical genius of the Filipino – notably in compositions and in orchestral arrangements of Nicanor Abelardo’s “Bituing Marikit” and “Mutya ng Pasig” with arrangement by Angel Peña; Redentor Romero’s “Philippine Portraits” – and even in the nostalgic songs of our forbears portions of which bound end to end, made-up the G.B. Green’s “Overture of Filipino Folksong.”
Auspicious was the occasion, full the house, and wildly enthusiastic the audience. Because, perhaps, of the smallness of the Francisco Santiago Hall, never had the PPO sounded more solid or rotund.
Conductor
Romero was hailed by the New York Post as an "excellent conductor". He was the country's first and only international conductor. International soloists who had performed under his baton include Valery Klimov, Malcolm Frager, Janos Starker, Philip Entremont, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Krainev, Yevgeny Malinin, and Raizza Bobriniova. Romero graduated from the University of the Philippines and studied further at the San Francisco Conservatory. He finished high school at Arellano (Manila North) High School.
Philippine Portraits 1980
Composer: Romero, Redentor
Arranger: Redentor Romero Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Redentor Romero Album: Redentor Romero conducts the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A beautiful night with the PPO, Barbieri, Fernandez sisters
By Leonor O Goguingco February 6, 2004, 8:00am
Manila Bulletin
A “beautiful night” PPO resident conductor Ruggero Barbieri called it – and that it was, indeed, featuring a concert organized by Mayor Jejomar Binay and Dra. Elenita Binay and the Makati City Government – one which was to display the musical genius of the Filipino – notably in compositions and in orchestral arrangements of Nicanor Abelardo’s “Bituing Marikit” and “Mutya ng Pasig” with arrangement by Angel Peña; Redentor Romero’s “Philippine Portraits” – and even in the nostalgic songs of our forbears portions of which bound end to end, made-up the G.B. Green’s “Overture of Filipino Folksong.”
Auspicious was the occasion, full the house, and wildly enthusiastic the audience. Because, perhaps, of the smallness of the Francisco Santiago Hall, never had the PPO sounded more solid or rotund.
