Josefino Chino Toledo is a composer-conductor. He is currently the Executive Director of Miriam College        Center for Applied Music, and a full professor of music composition and   theory at the University of the Philippines. Toledo is the founding music director of Metro-Manila Concert Orchestra (MMCO) and the            Grupo 20/21, a modular music ensemble.

Chino studied music at the University of the Philippines, Cleveland Institute of Music – Case Western Reserve University in the U.S., and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris.

As a conductor, he is noted for premiering works of Filipino composers as well as other Asian composers and has conducted concerts in Japan, Indonesia, Australia, and China. He was the associate artistic director and conductor of the first Asia-Europe Music Camp by the Asia-Europe Foundation.

Toledo’s own compositions are regularly performed in international festivals, concerts and recitals in US, Canada, Lithuania, Brazil, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, and almost all Asian countries.