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BORN;
Gawad Chancellor para sa Pinakamahusay na Mananaliksik (Hall
of Fame,2003) UP
Dr. Jonas Baes is a Faculty of Composition and Theory
Department at the U.P. College of Music, and a Composer,
Ethnomusicologist, and Cultural Activist
He encountered the works of Jose Maceda and attended several
seminar-workshops of visiting lecturers
He researched on the music of the Iraya-Mangyan people of
Mindoro, which later became the inspiration for his compositions
He earned his doctorate in Philippine Studies at the University of
the Philippines, with the dissertation: Modes of Appropriation in
Philippine Indigenous Music: The Politics of the Production of
Cultural Difference
He is known for writing music utilizing unorthodox musical
instruments such as: beanpod rattles, leaves, iron-nail chimes
and various Asian instruments such as: bamboo scrapers,
bamboo flutes, and vocal music using Asian vocal techniques
EDUCATION; PhD: University of the Philippines[Philippine
Studies] 2004; Special Lessons: Staatliche Hochschule fuer
Music Freiburg im Br., Germany[Composition/Music Politics]
1992-1994;Bachelor of Music: University of the Philippines
[Composition] 1982
BAES’ Musical Compositions include; Imagined Community, After
Benedict Anderson for four bamboo scrapers,Bamui trail caller,
Sarunai for oboe, Khaen for mouth organ
Major Musical Compositions; Patangis-Buwaya(2003), Banwa
(1996-97), Wala(1997), Aguyoy(2005), Daluy(1994), Inayta(2010),
Basbasan(1983)