Francisco Feliciano

Francisco Feliciano (19 February 1941 – 19 September 2014) was a Filipino composer and conductor. He was a National Artist of the Philippines for Music.

Feliciano was born in 1941, in Morong, Rizal.

Francisco Feliciano graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Teacher's diploma in Music (1967) with a Masters in Music Composition (1972). In 1977 he went to the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin, Germany to obtain a diploma in Music Composition. In 1979 he attended Yale University School of Music and graduated with a Master of Musical Arts and a Doctorate in Musical Arts, Composition. While at Yale University he conducted the Yale Contemporary Ensemble, considered as one of the leading performing groups in America for contemporary and avant-garde music. His teachers in conducting were Arthur Weisberg and Martin Behrmann, while he studied composition under Jacob Druckman, Isang Yun, H.W. Zimmerman and Krzysztof Penderecki.

He died in September 19, 2014, in Manila.

Works and arrangements include for example:

• Buksan mo ang aming mga labi (published 1982)
• Mass of Saint Andrew (published 1981)
• Pamugun (choral, with soprano solo. published 2002)
• Pokpok alimpako (chorus. published 2002)
• Three Visayan folksongs : for high voice (published 1998)

• 2014 - National Artist for Music