CHANGE in VENUE for DECEMBER 4, 2011 Piano Festival Auditions. It will be held at ST.SCHOLASTICA’S COLLEGE,Manila– School of Music 9am-12nn.

Please be guided accordingly.

Hello Fellow PTGP Members!

Avoid the hassle of falling in line for auditions!
Register online and get prompt announcements of your time and room assignments.

The Online Application form is at the right side, top corner of this page, one for SOLO performers and another for CHAMBER/ENSEMBLE Performers

Audition dates: December 4, 2011
January 8, 2012
UST Conservatory of Music

Audition fee of Php800 (in cash) should be paid on the day.

Festival Dates: 19 and 26 of February 2012

Venue: Philam Life Auditorium

To all teachers and participants send your recent 2×2 picture in jpeg file to askptgp@yahoo.com for participants please indicate- full name, age and teacher’s name.

Please be guided accordingly.

On November 2, 1972, together with the Philippine Choral Conductor’s Assoc. and the Philippine Society for Organists, the PIANO TEACHERS’ GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES (PTGP) was launched as a corollary to the Philippine Society for Music Education.

The founding President of the PTGP was Milagros De Ocampo, with National Artist Lucrecia Kasilag as honorary president (until her death on Aug.16,2008). Other founding officers were: Sr. Scholastica Benitez, OSB, Vice-Pres: Vilma Santiago Felipe, Secretary: Mrs. Angeles C. Hernandez, Asst. Sec: Alice Araneta Lim, Treasurer: Sr. Mamie Martell,CIM, PRO: Sr. Cecille Belen, SFIC, Lydia Bunag and Pilar Buencamino Larracas were Board Members. This leadership nurtured the PTGP in its infant years, through seminars, symposia, competitions and general assemblies.

PTGP aims to:

1. Advance the piano-teaching profession as a whole
2. Foster goodwill among piano teachers and unite their efforts towards solutions of common problems
3. Establish an accreditation board to raise and maintain professional standards
4. Form chapter-guilds throughout the country
5. Promote existing and new Filipino compositions for piano

Today in keeping with the above objectives, PTGP’s main activities consist of refresher seminars, masterclasses, workshops in piano performance,pedagogy and repertoire building which are conducted by local and foreign-based artists-pedagogue, and competitions. As in the past, these competitions are held to challenge both the students and teachers in the mastery of particular repertoire or style/s, to discover and encourage the potential of promising pianists, and to recognize the dedication of the teachers. The annual festival remains as its centerpiece, serving a wide circle of teachers and students as an avenue for a public affirmation of achievements in piano study.