Dear Family and Friends,

If you are in Manhattan at this time- You are invited to my All-Chopin Concert.

Date: September 25, 2004, Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Place: St. Malachy's Church, 239 West 49th Street, between Broadway and 8th Ave., NY, NY 10019. Ample garage parking close by.
Donation: $10.00
- to reserve tickets- please e-mail: ticketsfortheactorschapel@yahoo.com or call the church: 212-489-1340
- tickets will be held under your name at the door. Tickets are payable by cash or check at the door
or send your check to:
St. Malachy's Church (Ramos Recital)
239 West 49th Street,, NY, NY 10019

I am honored that my concert will be the initial fund-raiser event for the newly formed Children's Cathedral Choir of the New York Archdiocese. The Children's Cathedral Choir is open to children throughout the metropolitan area, where they will be taught good music and vocal technique; they will perform once a month at the mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and at St. Malachy's Church; and they will get to travel too.
Your generous support of my recital will provide a lot of talented children a great opportunity to be nurtured and developed to sing and learn liturgical songs by the masters; and you will be enjoying an afternoon of Chopin's best loved compositions.

Hope to see you on Sept.25th.

Sincerely ,

Bini

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St. Malachy's Church (the Actor's Chapel)
presents
LAKAMBINI Z. RAMOS, pianist,
in an afternoon of
Frederick Chopin's Best Loved Piano Composition

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PROGRAM

ETUDE IN E MAJOR, OP. 10,NO. 3
ETUDE IN C# Minor, OP. 10, # 4
ETUDE IN G FLAT MAJOR, OP. 10, # 5
ETUDE IN C MINOR, OP. 10, # 12 (REVOLUTIONARY)
NOCTURNE IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP.9
MAZURKA IN B-FLAT MAJOR, OP 7, # 1
BALLADE IN G MINOR, OP. 23

INTERMISSION

ETUDE IN G SHARP MINOR, OP. 25, # 6
FANTAISIE IMPROMPTU IN C# MINOR, OP. 66
PRELUDE IN G MAJOR, OP 28, # 3
SCHERZO IN B-FLAT MINOR, OP. 32
WALTZ IN D FLAT MAJOR, OP. 65 # 1
TARANTELLA IN A FLAT OP. 43
WALTZ IN C# MINOR, OP. 64 # 2
POLONAISE IN A FLAT MAJOR, OP 53

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  LAKAMBINI ZAGUIRRE-RAMOS, concert pianist, teacher, accompanist, Music Director, choir director, organist and cantor - received her Bachelor's Degree in Music at St. Joseph's College in Quezon City, Philippines, having studied with Avelina Manalo,. Shortly after that, she won first prize in a National Piano Competition in Manila which awarded her, under the tutorship of Benjamin Tupas, the Cardinal Spellman Scholarship to attend Pope Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy, where she earned her Master's Degree in Music with Wilhelm Gillert. She took post graduate courses at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna, Italy, and at Juilliard and Teacher's College in New York, and studied with Martin Canin.

Ms. Ramos was a third prize winner in the Tschaikowsky competition in Manila and won two silver medals in the 1984 International Annual Piano Recording Competition sponsored by the American College of Musicians, National Piano Guild of Piano Teachers in the United States.

She has given lecture-recitals in the Philippines, Australia, San Francisco, New York and Rhode Island and Westchester. She performs and has recorded the original music of Filipino composers, a varied collection of piano pieces in different styles in her repertoire ALAY I; made a Chopin recording; she also recorded her 3 compositions, versions of the "Happy Birthday" for the 75th Anniversary of the Piano Teachers Congress. Her recent CD is a entitled "Pianist performs Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin". She was the accompanist to the Manila Cathedral Choir under the direction of Fr. John van de Steen.

In 1989, Mrs. Ramos, became the 4th Director of Music at St. Michael´s Church in Co-op City and since then, has composed liturgical music for the church and she provided yearly concerts for St. Michael's. until 2000. In 2002, she was the Music director at St. Theresa's Church in the Bronx. In 2003, she became the assistant to the music director, Fr. Richard Baker, at St. Eugene's Church in Yonkers, New York. At present she is the Director of the Adult Choir and organist at St. Eugene's Church in Yonkers.

She was a board member , newsletter editor of the Piano Teachers Congress of N.Y. and chairman of the Lawrence Dilsner Scholarship Auditions of the Piano Teachers Congress of N.Y. Ms. Ramos is a board member of the Westchester's Musicians' Guild; a member of the Associated Music Teacher's League of N.Y.; the Brooklyn Music Teachers' Guild; the National Pastoral Musicians; and the American College of Musicians, National Piano Guild of Piano Teachers in the United States, of which she is an adjudicator. She is also a member of the NY Archdiocese Catholic Chorale.

Lakambini is married to Romualdo A. Ramos, an architect and they have a daughter, Maria Gracia who is a photographer.

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