The acclaimed violinist Yeou-Cheng Ma and master guitarist Michael Dadap will hold a concert on Tuesday, Aug. 21 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. The concert is one of the highlights of the 50th cultural season of the Silliman Cultural Affairs Committee.
Maestro Dadap is a soloist and chamber music performer, a composer, and conductor. An accomplished classical guitarist, Dadap has recorded six CD Albums for the classical guitar, including Intimate Guitar Classics for solo guitar which was the featured album in February 1990 on the New York Times classical radio station, WQXR. Dadap also gives regular chamber music concerts in the US, Asia, and Europe with wife, the violinist Yeou Cheng Ma.
Dadap has dedicated a large portion of his career to the appreciation of Filipino folk music, pioneering the awareness of the Philippine rondalla in the US. He is the founding music director of the Iskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla of Boston Massachusetts. His first published book, A Complete Method for the Virtuoso Bandurria, is now widely used among folkloric instrumental ensembles in the Philippines and in the US. Currently, he is working on his second book, The Evolving Instruments of the Rondalla.
Yeou-Cheng Ma is executive director of the New York City Children’s Orchestra Society. She is a developmental pediatrician and works with children with disorders in the Bronx and Queens in New York. She also performs as a chamber musician, and teaches violin, viola, and chamber music. Informally known as the “Music Doctor,” her recent interests include optimizing communication in all children, exploring the relationship of music to young children’s temperament, and using music as a means to find the “inner language” of children who have difficulties in verbal communication.
Yeou-Cheng’s work with the Children’s Orchestra Society has been recognized by the New York Public Advocate Award for leadership and advocacy for Asian American Youth in 1996, and the Francis Riker Davis Award from the Brearley School for outstanding community service in 1999. As part of the Dadap-Ma Duo, Yeou-Cheng has toured in Europe, Asia, and the US. She also performs in chamber music groups with COS faculty and friends.
Tickets for the concert are available at P200 for both the 3pm matinee and the 8pm gala. All tickets and season passes for Luce Auditorium shows are available for sale at the SU College of Performing & Visual Arts, and at the theater lobby before the show begins. For ticket reservations and other inquiries, call (035) 422-4365 or 0917-513-3312. (Ian Rosales Casocot/CAC)
