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 The Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, established in the campus of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines in 1980, stands as the foremost training center in Asia for people intending to dedicate their time in the ministry of music and liturgy in the church. Following the movement for contextualization of worship in Asian churches, AILM pioneered in training church musicians for their roles as worship leaders through intensive residential programs designed to equip the students with skills essential to their future work. The training programs cover varied but related areas of concentration, focusing primarily on choir music and conducting. Contextualization is addressed by courses that emphasize the creative work – music and text writing – pursuing the vision articulated by its founder, Francisco Feliciano, that in order to achieve the goals of contextualization, new works reflecting the spirit and identity of the local churches must be born and re-born.
The AILM Training Program has evolved over the last two decades, going through continuing changes and refinement as it responds to the changes within the society, the churches and the world. Today it offers several programs from the basic training for worship associates to the master programs in liturgy and music. It cooperates with theologians, educators, and musicians in crafting curricula that anticipates the needs of a worshipping community in music, liturgy, and of late, the arts. 
The hallmark of AILM is creativity – in approaches to music for congregation, creating new songs, writing new texts for prayers, the role of arts in a worshipping community. It has produced in the last 25 years hundreds of men and women who have taken their places in their respective churches as music leaders, teachers, composers, carrying on the mission of AILM in their own countries. More importantly, it has produced a huge body of new songs that represent the music of the local communities to which the churches belong. These are now sung worldwide. The AILM is the creative link, the channel through which the rest of the world can hear the songs of Asian churches.
AILM, as it begins the second cycle in its creative and education mission, offers these trainings with renewed vigor as it challenges its students to re-discover their roots and the seeds of faith that were planted in Asian soil.
The AILM Trining Program provides professional training in church music, creative liturgy and other worship services, studies in worship and theology, the arts in worship, skills development in music, composition, dance, theater and the visual arts as a tool in worship and leading congregations in worship.
AILM offers the following residency programs:
Worship Associate
A two year program focusing on the understanding, preparation and execution
of liturgy and worship services. The curriculum includes basic musicianship and choral music, with individual studies on voice, guitar, piano and traditional instruments.
Bachelor in Church Music
A degree program with emphasis on the skills of a church musician, with all
students required to take Choral Conducting as major area of study and an area of concentration on either Composition, Voice, Guitar, Organ or Music Research.
A student is accepted to this program only after completing the requirements of the Worship Associate program and passing the Qualifying Exams.
A modified program, AB Church Music, is also offered in consortium with the Trinity University of Asia.
Master of Theology in Liturgy and Music
This program offers the students a more critical study of worship and its elements, the Practice, Theology and Principles of Worship, and a higher level of skill in music in the Church Music Program.
For more details, the AILM Brochure can be downloaded here.
COMPOSITION
DR. FRANCISCO F. FELICIANO
Doctor of Musical Arts (Composition)
Yale University, 1984
Master of Musical Arts (with Distinction)
Yale University, 1979
Special Studies in Church Music
Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin, Germany, 1973-1977
Diploma in Music Composition
Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, 1977
Master of Music Composition
University of the Philippines, 1972
DR. RAMON P. SANTOS
Ph.D. in Musicology
State University of New York, USA
Master of Music (with Distinction)
Indiana University, USA, 1969
Bachelor of Music in Composition and Conducting
University of the Philippines, 1965
DR. JONAS U. BAES
Ph.D. in Philippine Studies
University of the Philippines, 2004
Aufbaustudium Komposition
Freiburg Musikhochschule, Germany, 1994
Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology, 1985
Bachelor of Music
University of the Philippines, 1982
THEORY
MRS. DOLORES T. ANDRES
Master in Music major in Music Education
University of Santo Tomas, 2003
Bachelor of Music (Music Education) (cum laude)
University of Santo Tomas, 1989
MR. ARWIN Q. TAN
Master of Music in Musicology, Candidate
University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Music (Magna cum laude, Dean’s Medal)
University of the Philippines
LIA Com.
Dela Salle University, 1991
MRS. ESTER LEE N. PARAGAS
Bachelor of Church Music
Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, 2001
Bachelor in Secondary Education (B.S.Ed.) major in English
Notre Dame of Marbel University, 1995
MUSIC CULTURES
MRS. AGA MAYO BUTOCAN (June 1986)
Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology
Philippine Women’s University, 1989
Master of Arts in Education
Centro Escolar University, Manila, 1972
Bachelor of Science in Education
Arellano University, Manila, 1969
CHORAL CONDUCTING
MR. JONATHAN M. VELASCO
Choral Conducting (with Excellence)
Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin, Germany, 1993
MRS. DARLEEN H. YU
Bachelor of Music in Choral Conducting with concentration
in Piano and Minor in Voice (Magna Cum Laude)
University of the Philippines, 1998
THEOLOGY
THE VERY REVEREND TOMAS S. MADDELA
Licentia in Sacra Liturgica (SLL) (magna cum laude)
Pontifico Istituto Liturgico, Rome, Italy, 1988
Bachelor of Theology (cum laude)
St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, 1982
CREATIVE LITURGY
REV. FR. FREDDIE R. CAPARROS, JR.
Bachelor in Theology
Saint Andrew’s Theological Seminary, 2003
Pastoral Ministry
Immaculate Concepcion Theologate, 1991
Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies minor in Philosophy and Sociology
Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan Seminary, 1986
MR. EMMANUEL R. GARIBAY
Master of Divinity
Union Theological Seminary, 1995
Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of the Philippines, 1990
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
University of the Philippines, 1984
APPLIED MUSIC
Voice
MISS ELLA CECILIA G. BAARDE
Bachelor of Music major in Voice (cum laude)
University of the Philippines
MRS. LUZ CORAZON R. ROQUE
Bachelor of Music, major in Voice
University of the Philippines, 1982
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
University of the Philippines, 1976
MRS. MA. CARMILA L. MOLINA
Hongkong Academy for Performing Arts in Music
(Opera Studies) Professional Diploma, 1995-1996
Diploma in Creative and Performing Music Arts (DCPMA) (undergraduate)
University of the Philippines, 1987-1994
Piano
MISS MICHELLE C. NICOLASORA
Master of Music in Piano
University of the Philippines, 2003 - present
Bachelor of Music in Piano (cum laude)
University of the Philippines, 2003
MISS CHLOE B. CANTON
Master of Music
University of the Philippines, 2003
Bachelor of Music in Piano
University of the Philippines, 2001
MRS. MARY ROSE R. CORONEL
MA Music Education: currently with 24 units
Philippine Normal University
Bachelor of Music in Music Education (Magna Cum Laude)
University of Santo Tomas, 2003
Guitar
MR. PHIL C. VALDEZ
Music Teacher’s Diploma (with Excellence)
Philippine Women’s University, 1997
COMMUNICATION ARTS
MRS. CORAZON A. HILA
Master of Arts in Oriental Religions and Cultures
University of Santo Tomas, 1988
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
University of the Philippines, 1969
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AILM Training Program :
DR. FRANCISCO F. FELCIANO
Director
JONATHAN VELASCO
Chairman of Choral Studies
REV. FR. WILFREDO R. CAPARROS, JR.
Registrar
DEBBIE C. PRINCIPE
Training Program Staff
Any inquiry regarding AILM should be sent to academics@sambalikhaan.org.
Admission requires an applicant to have completed at least the high school level or its equivalent, be proficient in oral and written English and his or her training to be endorsed by the church to which he or she belongs. Applications, together with the following requirements:
 The AILM Chorale – Asian Ensemble is the performing arm of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, a leading center for training in church music in Asia. The ensemble has 40 members coming from the different countries in Asia, with a repertoire as varied as its membership. The Chorale sings a mix of Western and Asian repertoire, both sacred and secular. The Chorale is known for its outstanding performance of contemporary works of Asian composers and folk song arrangements. It has made four recordings:
- Bungkos, a collection of new choral works by AILM composers;
- Ayyuwan Chi Pita, songs from the music drama of the same title featuring the music
of a Northern Philippine ethnic group, the Kalingas;
- Images of Asia in Folk Songs, folk songs from the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan;
- Missa Mysterium, composed by Francisco Feliciano for the International Bamboo Organ Festival, a full mass for orchestra, large chorus and soloists.
The first tour of the AILM Chorale was in 1989 with a visit to Sweden. The group has performed in almost all the major cities of Sweden, including a private performance for King Olaf. This was followed by another invitation in 1991.
In the 1993 Kirchentag in Munich, the AILM Chorale was the main choir, performing in major events and the Closing Worship at the Olympic Stadium where an estimated 150,000 gathered. Performances in Switzerland preceded the Kirchentag while a tour of Bavaria followed. In Heilsbronn, Germany, the Chorale performed creditably in the same program with the famous Windsbach Knabenchor.
Asian cities were the next destination of the AILM Chorale, and from 1994 to 1997 it performed a series of concerts in Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Bali, Jogjakarta, Ambon, Surakarta, Ujung Pandan, and Manado), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Petaling Jaya, Malacca, Sarawak), Singapore, and Hongkong.
The AILM Chorale was invited to sing the chorus parts in the Pilgrim’s Mass produced by the Christian Mission to Buddhists and performed at the Hongkong Cultural Center in 1997.
 Members of the AILM Chorale – Asian Ensemble are also instrumentalists, performing on a variety of Asian instruments, and can dance traditional Asian dances when dance is a necessary part of the program. Its audiences in the past years have included heads of states, diplomats, and other government and church leaders. It is comfortable in both the formal stage of concert halls and in ‘informal’ venues such as churches, malls, and parks.
As students of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, many members of the Chorale are also composers and arrangers. Individually, each is capable of leading a congregation in worship and conducting choirs.
The first choirmaster of the AILM Chorale is National Artist for Music Professor Andrea Veneracion, founder of the Philippine Madrigal Singers. Joel Navarro, Jonathan Velasco and Eudenice Palaruan took successive turns in training the chorale. The present conductor is Jonathan Velasco, one the country’s leading choral master who also conducts the World Youth Choir and is very active in the international choral world as juror and lecturer.
Since its organization in 1986, the AILM Chorale has made bring the music of Asian cultures to the rest of the world its mission. This is a mission it has pursued dedicatedly through the years with its program that is reflective of the Asian soul.
For more images of AILM Chorale's performances, visit our Gallery.
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