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Biographical Listing:
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (UK)
20th Century Composers of Asia (Japan)
Komponisten der Gegenwart (Germany)
Philippine Encyclopedia for the Arts
Who’s Who in International Music (England)
Who’s Who in Australasia and Far East (England,)
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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.
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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
International Arts Award; UP University Artists III Award; UP Chancellor Outstanding Professor Award; The Outstanding Young Men Award; FEU Oustanding Alumni Award Civetella Ranieri Fellowship Award; PMPC Movie Musical Scorer of the Year Star Award; ASCAP Raymund Hubbel Award; CIM Institutional Grant; Asian Cultural Council Grant; UP Chancellor Awards; CCP-LFC Composition Prizes; Young Artist Foundation of the Philippines Study Grant; French Government Scholarship; Golden Screen Award for Best Musical Score; 2014 Gawad Buhay - Philstage Awards for Outstanding Original Musical Composition and Outstanding Musical Direction; etc..