Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was a Filipino composer and pianist.
Background
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, Louisiana Union, Philippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag, Senior, a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Kasilag, a violinist and a violin teacher. Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was educated at Paco Elementary School and graduated valedictorian in 1930.
Education
Afterwards, Kasilag studied under Doña Pura Villanueva. She then transferred to Philippine Women"s University for high school, where in 1933 she also graduated as valedictorian. Foreign college, she graduated cum laude in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English, in the same university.
She also studied music at Saint Scholastica’s College in Malate, Manila, with Sister Baptista Battig, graduating with a Music Teacher"s Diploma, major in piano, in 1939.
Career
lieutenant was during this time that Kasilag performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn"s May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old.