Concert info from the Liceo De Cagayan Website News and Events

"After a successful concert at Rodelsa Hall last year, Los Angeles-based tenor Sal Malaki returns to Cagayan de Oro for another special engagement this coming August 8, 2013, 8PM at Rodelsa Hall.



The Malaki concert is part of “Enriched: The Rodelsa Performance Season 2013-2014”, a series of benefit performances at Rodelsa Hall in partnership with Safer River, Life Saver Foundation, Inc. to help raise funds for the environmental projects of the Foundation. Donations of any amount are gladly accepted upon entrance to the venue.




Malaki is a member of the famous Los Angeles Opera Company, the United States’ 4th largest opera house under the general direction of world-renowned tenor and conductor, Maestro Placido Domingo. He is a regular recitalist with performances across the nation’s very prestigious venues like the Carnegie Hall, Weil Recital Hall, the Alice Tully Hall, and the Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, La Mirada Performing Arts Center, Thousand Oaks Civic Center, and the UCLA’s Royce Hall in the Los Angeles area, the Macomb Center for the Arts in Detroit, St. John’s University in Minnesota, the Morristown Museum in New Jersey, and among other performances across the United States of America.




He can be heard in the recording of Spoliarium, the operatic composition of the famous Ryan Cayabyab and to the libretto of equally known Fides Cuyugan-Asensio carried by Sony BMG Philippines. He sings the lead role of Juan Luna and tells the story of his love and life, and above all his world-class painting entitled Spoliarium, that honored him the gold medal award in Paris in 1884.




Sal Malaki is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Music in Diliman, Q.C. He obtained his music degrees both in Flute (Teacher’s Diploma), under Prof. Enrique Barcelo and Voice (Bachelor of Music) under Professor and National Artist in Music Andrea O. Veneracion and Prof. Emeritus Fides Cuyugan-Asensio. Right after graduation, he was invited to join the faculty of the UP College of Music. He was also a voice instructor and head of the Voice Department of the St. Scholastica’s College in Manila. Sal was a member and tenor soloist of the UP Madrigal Singers before joining the Los Angeles Opera Company and the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1995." 




To know more about the concert please feel free to call the Liceo de Cagayan University Office of Cultural Affairs at 8584093 to 95 local 109 or 09176366528 or email rodelsahall(at)liceo.edu.ph.