ISME Community Music Activities Preconference Seminar
Presentation of my Master’s Research at the International Society for Music Education’s (ISME) Community Music Activities (CMA) Preconference Seminar in July 2024 in Tampere, Finland
ICCM 2023 Student Research Symposium
Enjoy my presentation of my masters research entitled “Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music” virtually presented at York St. John University in York, United Kingdom on November 27, 2023
Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music
This manuscript describes an autoethnographic capstone for my MA in community music where I describe my lived experience with racism and exclusion in the Canadian music conservatory system and how I used community music to foster pathways for healing from racial trauma. While conducting the research, it became clear that my disconnection from my Filipino-Canadian heritage, and the Philippines’ history of colonization, contributed to a fractured sense of identity. As an act of resistance against White supremacy and the colonized mindset, this manuscript explores how I reconnected with my Filipino heritage, directed Filipino-centered community music ensembles, and established musical, linguistic, and cultural organizational infrastructure that is aimed at connecting Filipino diasporic researchers, artists, and community members in order address critical issues faced by the Filipino-Canadian community of Southern Ontario and beyond.
Failing To Be Perfect: The Role of Mindfulness & Meditation in Music Performance
I wrote this essay as part of my music education seminar in my Bachelor of Music Education degree. I explore my own experience with music performance anxiety as well as my practice as a mindfulness and meditation practitioner. I also provide strategies for addressing MPA and incorporating mindfulness in a K-12 model.
Research Activities
Conference Presentation (September 2024) Undergraduate and Postgraduate Symposium in Music Education Research, University of the Philippines, College of Music (Online)
“Filipino Community Music Theory and Practice as a Vehicle for Cultivating Cultural Resonance: A Practitioner-Scholar’s Journey of Healing”
Conference Presentation (July 2024) ISME 2024 Community Music Activities (CMA) Pre-conference Seminar, Tampere, Finland
“Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music”
Keynote Address (May 2024) Inaugural Filipino Cultural Gathering & Symposium, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
“Kwentuhang Filipino-Canadian: Filipino-Canadian Discussions at The Inaugural Filipino Cultural Gathering & Symposium
Conference Presentation (November 2023)
The International Centre for Community Music (ICCM) Student Research Symposium, York St. John University, York, United Kingdom
“Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music”
Conference Presentation (July 2023)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Music Education Gathering, Westminster, CA
“Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music”
Master of Arts in Community Music Capstone Project (August 2023)
“Confronting Racism in Canadian Music Conservatories: Healing Trauma Through Community Music”
Lecture-Recital (March 2023)
Wilfrid Laurier University, as part of a directed study in Music of the Philippine Diaspora
“Music of the Philippine Archipelago”
Music Education Research Study (April 2018)
Memorial University, ED 4830 - Music Education Seminar
“Failing to be Perfect: The Role of Mindfulness and Meditation in Music Performance”
Conference Presentation (2018)
Memorial University, Newfound XV Music Festival
“Mindfulness Break”
Conference Presentation (2017)
Memorial University, Newfound XIV Music Festival. A presentation examining racial disparities in standardized testing.
“Innovation in Education: Social Constructions and Their Interaction with Pedagogy”
Forthcoming Contributions
Peer Reviewed Article (Accepted; Under Revision) Choral Canada’s Journal Anacrusis “Challenging Racism and Dismantling White Supremacy in the Canadian Choral Arts”