The Dadap Family: Michael, Yeou-Cheng, Laura
The Dadap-Ma Guitar & Violin Duo, husband and wife team Michael Dadap and Yeou-Cheng Ma (Yo-Yo Ma’s elder sister), is joined by daughter, and cellist, Laura Dadap for a night filled with music ranging from classical (Paganini, Giuliani, Villalobos, Tarrega) to contemporary, with a strong influence from Filipino folklore.
Tickets
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$20 – General Admission
$10 Students / Seniors (password: salons)
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Michael Dadap has been the artistic/music director and conductor of The Children’s Orchestra Society since 1984. A graduate of the University of the Philippines in philosophy, he studied composition and conducting at Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School. Mr. Dadap initiated and developed many teaching and orchestral training programs, with an emphasis on reading music. Mr. Dadap has conducted and collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned concert artists. An accomplished classical guitarist, he made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1974 and has performed internationally. As part of the Dadap-Ma duo, he has toured in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
As a composer and passionate folklorist and advocate of music from his native Phillippines, his composition Handurawan Dance Suite won the Asian-American Alliance for the Arts Award and was premiered by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble in 1988. His Sinulog Suite for Orchestra was premiered by the YSE in 1998 at Alice Tully Hall and given its UK premiere during the YSE’s tour of London and Edinburgh in August, 2005. Mr. Dadap also involves himself in outreach programs in his homeland by performing solo and chamber guitar concerts and giving master classes. In 2002, he opened the first International Guitar Festival in Bohol and appeared as the guest conductor of thePhilippine Philharmonic Orchestra. He gives workshops on the Bandurria (a 14-string folk instrument), and continues to work as a consultant with the Iskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla (Philippine School Rondalla) of Boston MA, a folkloric ensemble he co-founded with Mrs. Cristine Castro in 1984. In February 2004, he was invited to speak and present his new book, Method for the Virtuoso Bandurria at the First International Rondalla Festival in Naga City, Philippines.
Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma is a Developmental Pediatrician and a musician. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School, she works with children with developmental disorders in the Bronx, and teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at the Children’s Orchestra Society. Informally known as the ”Music Doctor”, her interests include optimizing communication in all children and exploring the relationship of music to young children’s temperament. Her work as Executive Director of the Children’s Orchestra Society has been recognized by St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, which awarded her a doctorate in humanities honoris causa, the New York Public Advocate Award for leadership and advocacy for Asian American Youth, and the Francis Riker Davis Award from the Brearley School for outstanding community service. As part of the Dadap-Ma Duo, she has toured in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She also performs in chamber music groups with COS faculty and friends.
Laura Dadap was born and raised in New York City by classical musicians Yeou-Cheng Ma and Michael Dadap. Throughout her childhood, her evenings were not spent watching television or playing outside, but at the concert hall. Through a lifetime of instrumental training (primarily on the cello), Laura discovered a passion for singing, which inevitably led her to the stage.
In 2001, Laura auditioned for and was accepted into New York’s prestigious LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts as a vocal major. There she received advanced conservatory style training in theory, song writing, solo and choral performance.
Dadap signed on to the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Emerson College in Boston, as an acting major in 2005. She partook in extensive training and performance opportunities of all kinds ranging from Shakespearean, to contemporary, to musical, to experimental theatre. Laura recently completed the program and graduated Emerson cum laude, she plans to continue her career in either New York or Los Angeles
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We are so excited to bring you some classics, and some newly arranged music for voice, violin, guitar, cello and piano, including favorites from Kreisler, Albeniz, & Dadap.