Professor Edna Aurora C. Culig (ON LEAVE) is a faculty member of the University of the Philippines where she finished her Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Master of Music in Music Education. She is the founder and director of the UP Rondalla Ensemble whose bulk of repertoire consists of her own original arrangements and transcriptions. Miss Culig started playing the bandurria at the young age of 9 and won in the 1977 National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA), solo bandurria category.

When she was 14, she was featured bandurria soloist of the Manila Symphony Orchestra where she
rendered Czardas by Monti and Hatinggabi by Molina. She was an alumna of the Philippine High School
for the Arts, majoring in bandurria. She had several tours in USA, Canada, Europe and Asia as rondalla
master of the UP Filipiniana Dance Troupe and Himig ng Lahi Cultural Group under the direction of
Prof. Corazon Inigo and National Artist Felipe de Leon, Sr., respectively. Among her written works on
rondalla include a masteral thesis entitled The Philippine Bandurria: It's Educational and Artistic Possibilities; an article in the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts, vol. 6; a video and article in UNESCO's Instruments of Asia and the Pacific, vol. 3. Notable among her rondalla arrangements are Rigodon de Honor, Mindanao Orchids by Ramon Tapales, and Serenata a la Mezquita. She has also a solo bandurria album entitled Hatingggabi, which won for Bravo Filipino Cultural Show on Air the 2001 Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Program in Promoting Filipino Culture. She is often invited as adjudicator of prestigious rondalla competitions such as the NAMCYA and Nayong Filipino's Bandurria, Gitara , at Iba Pa. Miss Culig was a recipient of a study grant from the Agencia Espanola Cooperacion de Musica and a creative writing grant from the University of the Philippines Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development.

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