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of the The Ateneo de Manila College Glee
Club is the oldest university choir in the Philippines. Its goal has always been to spread
Philippine faith and culture through excellence music.When the American Jesuits took over
the Ateneo in 1921, a boy’s choir was formed with Jose Mossessgeld Santiago as its
musical director. Unfortunately, that choir died a natural death a few years in its
existence. However, it was revied in 1932 when the Ateneo moved to its sprawling campus in
Loyola Heights. None other than the renowned stage director Fr. James Reuter S.J.
conducted the newly revived Glee Club.
On the last years tour through Europe became in Germany new CD's with religious, filipino and other songs manufacture. You are at the singers, but also into the CD OnlineShop of j.b. music available. The conducting at this CD's the guest-conductor Jonathan Velasco.
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Prof. Joel P. Navarro - Principal Conductor
He trained early as a choir boy in his grade school days and subsequently gained entry as a soloist-officer of the UP Concert Chorus in College. His forays into opera, oratorio and music theater include singing major and minor roles in different music revues and abridged musicals. He is frequently called upon to do consultancy, guest conductorships, workshops and auditions for the International School, the Ministry of Education of Singapore and choirs in government and churches in the Philippines, Asia, and the United States. On certain occassions, he is called upon by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to guest conduct Christmas concerts with festival choirs and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Jonathan Velasco - Guest Conductor
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In 1971,
the Glee Club became a mixed chorus. When Prof. 
Throughout the
year, the choir has performed in many concerts, recitals, government functions and other
engagements. In mid 1994, the Glee Club was approached by Mr. Lorie Taa and Ms. Pat
Castillo of Bookmark Philippines who wished to record a trilogy of choral CD albums which
would feature Philippine songs of history, faith and culture. Prof. Navarro and the Glee
Club readily agreed to do the albums. In December 1994, the first album, LANGIT was
released. The album features popular Filipino songs of praise. The second album, LAHI, was
released in September 1995. It featured popular Filipino folk songs from many regions of
the country. At the 1996 Katha Awards, the Glee Club won the Best Traditional Choir Music
Album Award for LAHI. It also won the best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Award for
Lagi Kitang Naalala from the CD LAHI. The same song also won the Best Vocal Arrangement
for a Traditional Song for Prof. Navarro. LAHI was also nominated for the Album of the
Year Award. The third album in the trilogy is now being planned and will feature songs
celebrating the country’s glorious history. The Glee Club is the first ever
Philippine choir to record albums like these which were specifically conceptualized to
preserve and document the beauty and variety of Philippine songs.
In
October 1995, the choir had the honor of singing for the Holy Pope for the third time.
When it traveled to the Vatican with members of the Executive Band, the choir also
performed for audiences in Rome, Oslo and Madrid. Aside from its many return trips to
Guam, the Glee Club’s recent tours were a North American Tour in 1997 and a National
Tour in 1998. The Glee Club has also released "An Offering", a CD album
featuring international folk and religious songs.
The CD of the Ateneo de Manila glee club's (2000) 
Recognized by his
peers as a gifted and versatile musical artist, Joel Navarro has a career built upon solid
achievement in the performing stage and in the academe. For twenty-one years now, he has
been the driving force behind the laurels upon which the Ateneo de Manila College Glee
Club rests. Aside from being a consultant for Choral Competitions in the National Music
Competition for Young Artists, and Vice-Chair of the Philippine Federation for Choral
Music, he is presently the Chair of Conducting and Choral Ensemble Department of the
University of the Philippines College of Music, where he finished his Bachelor and
Masteral degrees in Choral Conducting.
Jonathan
Velasco started singing at the age of 15, just before entering the U.P. College of Music,
where he majored in Piano and Voice. He first studied under George Hernandez, and was a
member of the choral group U.P. Saringhimig from 1979 to 1981. Upon entering the
university, he began taking formal voice lessons under Prof. Fides Cuyugan Ansensio.
In 1989, he left for Berlin,
Germany to pursue advanced studies in Choral Conducting under the renowned German Choral
pedagogue Martin Behrmann. He completed his studies in choral conducting and voice at the
Berliner Kirchenmusikschule with distinction. Upon his return to the Philippines in 1993,
he joined the Choral Conducting faculty of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music and
was appointed Dean of Studies in 1995. Velasco and his choirs are regulary featured at the
Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival. He conducts clinics for a number of choirs
in Manila and has held workshops and seminars on choral conducting and voice in Indonesia,
Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. He is a juror at the National Music Competitions for Young
Artists, and was Chairman for the Voice Category at last year’s competitions of the
NAMCYA.
August, 10 , 2001