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About

AWARD WINNING BARITONE

Cipriano De Guzmán Jr. won the Best Male Performance in a Concert at the 35th Aliw Awards 2022 and was nominated in the 16th BOH  Cameronian Arts Award in Kuala Lumpur (2019, Malaysia) in the Best Male Classical Soloist Category. 

He is a two-time recipient of “Ani Ng Dangal in Music” in 2018 and 2019 from the National Commission for Culture  and the Arts (Office of the President). 

Hailed by Diari Bon Dia (Newspaper of the Principality of Andorra, February, 2022) as “Jacques Sincère (Cipriano De  Guzmán) who sang the Chanson du Chevrier, the crème of the opera La Vall d’Andorra, the fragment which has  remained in the collective memory and which De Guzmán took advantage of with a magnificent interpretation”. 

Dubbed by the New Straits Times Malaysia (October, 2013) as “charming and debonair Escamillo who easily steals the  heart of Carmen from Don Jose”, he played the role Escamillo in George Bizet’s Opera “Carmen” in Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia.  

The Philippine Star (April 3,2014) described him as “the outstanding baritone Cipriano de Guzman who displayed a  remarkably full, rounded, resonant voice and a strong personality” after his performance as Frederic in the opera  “LAKME” at the Abelardo Hall Auditorium. 

He finished two Master’s Degrees in Music; Master en Interpretación de Òpera at Conservatori Superior de Música  del Liceu in Barcelona under the tutelage of Joan Martin-Royo and opera coachings with Mezzo-Soprano Teresa  Berganza. He also finished Master of Music in Vocal Performance with Distinction (St.Cecilia Award) at Elisabeth  University of Music Japan under Baritone Hiroharu Orikawa with full scholarship grant through the Loyola Memorial  Foundation and the Japan Association of Catholic Universities.  

In the Philippines, he graduated with academic distinction in three Bachelor’s Degrees: Major in Communication Arts as an Academic Scholar from the University of the East Manila, Bachelor in Music Education Voice Emphasis (Cum  Laude) and Bachelor’s Degree in Music Major in Vocal Performance (Cum Laude) under the tutelage of Irma Ponce Enrile Potenciano /Bass Jun Francis Jaranilla † and minor in Choral Conducting under Professor Fidel Calalang Jr. at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music with a full scholarship grant from Klassikal  Music Foundation. 

He is currently studying voice with Luxembourgish-Italian Mezzo Soprano Luisa Mauro, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Mérite  du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. 

His operatic role credits include excerpts and full operatic roles such as Il Notaio in Don Pasquale (Centre des Art  Pluriels Ettelbruck, Luxembourg 2024), Marullo in Rigoletto presented by Andorra Lirica (Principality of Andorra, 2023),  Silvio in Pagliacci presented by Lyric Opera of the Philippines/Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila, 2023), Dottore  Bartolo in the opera “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” (Opera studio Molise Teatro Savoia, Italy), Jacques Sincère in the opera  “Le Val’Andorre” (Opera d’Andorra, 2022), Alidoro in La Cenerentola (Barcelona, 2018), Sylvio in Pagliacci and Maestro  Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi (Hiroshima City Opera, 2019), Schaunard in La Boheme (Hiroshima City Opera, 2017),  Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (Hiroshima, Japan 2017), Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Opera excerpt Hiroshima, Japan  2017), Don Pasquale, Dottore Malatesta, Giorgio Germont (Opera scenes Hiroshima Japan 2017), Frederic in Lakme  (University of the Philippines 2014), Escamillo in Carmen (Kuala Lumpur City Opera, 2013), Marquis D’Obigny in La  Traviata (Daejeon Opera-Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2012), Monsieur Guillot in Eugene Onegin (Cultural Center  of the Philippines, 2006).  

Other major performances include Baritone Soloist in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at the Ayala Museum Manila, Philippines  (2019), Baritone Soloist in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in Ipoh, Malaysia (2019), Guest Artist at the Hiroshima Green Peace  New Year Concert (2017), Bass Soloist in G.F.Handel’s Messiah at St.Cecilia Hall, Hiroshima, Japan (2016), Guest Artist

in Sanata Dharma University Concert in Jogjakarta, Indonesia (2016), Soloist in The Canticle Singers Malaysia  productions from 2014-2018. 

He attended masterclasses in Cardiff, United Kingdom under Tenor Dennis O’Neill, CBE at the Wales International  Academy of Voice, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, Belgium with Baritone Lucas Cortoos as well as masterclasses at Sequenda Opera Studio in Luxembourg with Soprano Barbara Frittoli, Maestro Umberto Finazzi,  Stefano Nigro, and Gregory Moulin. 

Other masterclasses include vocal coachings with Mezzo Soprano Teresa Berganza, Bass Eric Halfvarson, Baritone Nicola  Ziccardi, Baritone Carlos Alvarez, Soprano Nelly Miricioiu-Kirk, Tenor, Gioacchino LiVigni, James Vaughan, Ryland  Davies, Gareth Jones, Julian Smith, Stacey Tappan, Dag Schantz, Dae San No, Megan Skidmore, Florence Guignolet,  Michella Bertagnolli-Fevre, Arthur Espiritu, and Gian Luca Passolini. 

He has performed in Spain, France, Germany, Andorra, Guam, United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,  Indonesia, and Japan. As an educator, he has given workshops and lectures in different countries such as a guest  lecturer at the 2022 National Conference of Music Schools (Philippines), 2018 Texas Educational Theater Association  National Conference (Dallas, Texas,USA), vocal and choral masterclasses at several universities in the Philippines;  University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music, Santa Isabel College of Music, Centro Escolar University Music  Department, De la Salle University Chorale, Liceo de Cagayan University Conservatory of Music, Theater and Dance,  Pamantasan Lungsod ng Maynila. 

He is also active in doing charity work in the Philippines, sending proceeds of his concerts and performances to different charitable organizations in Manila, war-torn Marawi City, Mindanao, and assisting students in their college education through his personal scholarship program. He was a Guest Program Host for several cultural programs in the Philippines including Earth Hour Philippines (Rizal Park, 2014), Concert at the Park Manila (2017), GSIS Museum of Arts Concert  Series (2010-2011), Paco Park Presents (2014). He is a member of the International Society for Music Education, the Philippine Society for Music Education, Andorra Lirica, Opera Studio Molise, and Sequenda Opera Studio. He is the  Luxembourg Country Editor of Roots and Wings Magazine and serves as the Press Relation Officer of the Pontifical and  Royal University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music Alumni Association. 

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