It was the year the performing arts came back with a vengeance after the uncertain years of 2020, 2021, and 2022. The year also saw the changing of the guard at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Music educator Michelle Nikki Junia replaced interim president Margie Moran Floirendo in…
This year, on the 39th concert season of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), a new music director in the person of seasoned Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak took over. If one is to judge by Nowak’s two latest engagements with the PPO, one can say the national orchestra has finally found a star conductor. Friday night at the