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‘Classical To Crossover’ on Sunshine Place online

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The Sunshine Place completes this year’s Sunshine Classics online concert series with Classical to Crossover featuring award-winning Filipino soprano-songwriter Lara Maigue and pianist Mariel Ilusorio.

Award-winning Filipino soprano-songwriter Lara Maigue

This can be viewed until Dec. 31 via the Sunshine Place: Senior Recreation Center’s YouTube Channel. Viewers can get a private link to the concert upon ticket purchase. With one click, registrants can access the concert video as many times as they want.              

Maigue will delight music lovers with well-loved classics like “The Doll Song” (Donizetti), “Der Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen” (Mozart), “Nessun Dorma” (Puccini), and Broadway hits like “If I Loved You” (Rodgers/Hammerstein), “Phantom of the Opera” (Webber), “Tonight” (Bernstein), “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (Peretti, Creatore, Weiss), and “On My Own” (Schönberg).                   

She will then crossover to contemporary masterpiece “Con Te Partiro” (Sartori/Quarantotto), and Filipino songs “Sa Kabukiran” (Velez), and her own award-winning composition, Nasaan.        

Lara Maigue is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Music major in Voice. She was recognized by the Aliw (Entertainment) Awards Foundation as Best Female Classical Performer for 2017 and Best Female Crossover Artist for 2018. She also won Best Jazz Recording at the 2019 Awit (Sing) Awards.                                         

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She was a finalist at the Singapore Lyric Opera ASEAN Vocal Competition in 2018 and was chosen to participate in Sumi Jo’s masterclass during the 2018 Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition where she was praised by the Grammy Award-winning soprano for her “supernatural high notes.”       

Her foray into songwriting came in 2013, where she became one of the top five finalists in the songwriting competition headed by Ryan Cayabyab and Manny V. Pangilinan, the Philippine Popular Music Festival (Philpop) for her composition, “Sa’yo Na Lang Ako,” interpreted by singer/actress Karylle.                 

Lara recently finished a 10-city Asian tour including performances in the Middle East. She currently divides her time as a performer and as managing partner in her family’s music school, the Maigue Music Studio (MMS).                     

Reserve your tickets now, just contact Mariel Ilusorio at (0917) 709-2255 or marielilusorio@hotmail.com. Package ticket rates are available for all five concerts, as well as choose four, choose three, or solo concerts.                                 

This series is made possible through the generosity of individual sponsors, as well as 98.7 DZFE and Clark Trading Freeport Trading Resources, Inc.   

The Sunshine Place, a senior recreation center under the Felicidad Tan Sy Foundation, is a venue for adults to live actively, through engaging in recreational classes and age-appropriate physical training programs. It is the venue to be entertained, to socialize, and to reflect; a place of happiness and wellness for one’s mind, body, and soul.             

For more inquiries and information, visit www.sunshineplaceph.com or like and subscribe to its Facebook Page and YouTube channel, Sunshine Place: Senior Recreation Center. Or follow its Instagram account @sunshineplaceph. 

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