Terence Guillermo
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Terence Guillermo, Kids Performing's Director of Vocal and Musical Theatre, headed the maiden production of Kids Performing Repertory Theatre (KPRT), NARNIA, THE MUSICAL: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Producer – Director in 2009. Kids Performing is Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

's premiere performing arts school. He passed the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music Singing Examinations with Distinction and led the first batch of Kids Performing vocal students to take the ABRSM exams with 100% passing rate and 50% of which are with Merit and Distinction.

For KPRT's second production, THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, which opened in June 2010 at the Genexis Theatre as part of the 2nd International Kids Performing Festival (IKPF), Terence co-translated the libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 and composed incidental music.

In July 2010, West Grove Primary School's adaptation of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST opened at the National University of Singapore High School. Terence directed the musical which he has rewritten the libretto to give this well-loved classic a Singaporean flavor.

He has an extensive experience in choral performance and has been part of award-winning choirs including the world-renowned and multi-awarded Philippine Madrigal Singers – UNESCO Artist for Peace
UNESCO Artist for Peace
UNESCO Artists for Peace are international celebrity advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This category of advocate is intended to heighten public awareness in addition to the categories UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO Special Envoy and UNESCO Champion for Sport...

 and the first and the only choir to win twice in the prestigious European Grand Prix for Choral Singing
European Grand Prix for Choral Singing
The European Grand Prix for Choral Singing is an annual choral competition between the winners of six European choral competitions...

 or what is known as the choral Olympics of the world. He was a delegate and soloist to the 1st Asian Choir Games in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, and has won Gold, Silver, and Category Winner awards for the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. He was also a delegate to the 1st Daegu International Choral Festival in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

, and Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 1st Philippine International Choral Festival and 2nd National Theatre Festival. He is a member of the Philippine Choral Directors Association and choirmaster of several choirs in the Philippines and in Singapore. In June 2010, he conducted the 188-strong Kids Performing choir for the Grand Launching of the majestic Marina Bay Sands, sharing the same stage with the Singapore Philharmonic Orchestra and the legendary Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...

.

He is a multidisciplinary artist-professional with varied exposure and experience in the performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 as well as information, education and communications works. He has formal education in Theater Arts, Voice, and Choral Conducting at the University of the Philippines
University of the Philippines
The ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...

 (UP) College of Arts and Letters, UP College of Music, and the Asian School of Music, Worship and the Arts; respectively. Apart from being an artist, Terence has completed the highly specialized Strategic Communications, Planning and Evaluation Course (SCOPE) of the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, UP Los Baños College of Developmental Communication, and UP Diliman College of Mass Communications, with equivalent MA credits, and has been the IEC Specialist and Consultant for various developmental projects of European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

, Federal Republic of Germany through the Kredinstalt feur Wieneraufbau, Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...

, International Labour Organization
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...

, Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, Government of Spain, and the Departments of Health, Agriculture, Land Reform and Energy.

Terence is also a certified IT Professional, having completed the Internet Professional Program at the Informatics International College and passing a Singapore-sanctioned certification exams.

He travels South East Asia to teach theater and music mostly for the cultural dissemination and arts enrichment projects of the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Cultural Center of the Philippines is a government-owned and controlled corporation established to preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in the Philippines. The CCP was established through Executive Order No. 30 s. 1966 by President Ferdinand Marcos...

, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Celestial Fame in K.L., Malaysia. As a voice teacher, he has been the key teacher and faculty member of the Yamaha School of Music Philippines- Voice Department, producing several Champions in Yamaha’s annual inter-branch Grand Prix competition. His private voice students have won in National and International voice competitions.

He has acted in, directed and produced over a hundred theatrical and musical productions since 1985, such as Barbie as the Island Princess
Barbie as the Island Princess
Barbie as the Island Princess is a 2007 direct-to-video computer animated Barbie film. It is part of the Barbie film series, a series of CGI Barbie films, the second to be a musical, and the first movie of Barbie animated under the name of Rainmaker Animation though it was animated by the old...

, L'Elisir D'Amore
L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...

, La Viuda Alegre, Elias at Salome, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

, Death In The Form Of A Rose, Fili 2, Ibong Adarna
Ibong Adarna
Ibong Adarna is an anonymous Filipino epic on the eponymous magical bird. The title's longer form during the Spanish Era was "Corrido at Buhay na Pinagdaanan nang Tatlóng Prinsipeng anak nang Haring Fernando at nang Reina Valeriana sa Cahariang Berbania" Ibong Adarna is an anonymous Filipino epic...

, Noli Me Tangere
Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere, meaning "don't touch me" / "touch me not", is the Latin version of words spoken, according to , by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she recognizes him after his resurrection....

, El Filibusterismo
El filibusterismo
El filibusterismo , also known by its English alternate title The Reign of Greed, is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere and like the first book, was written in Spanish. It was first published in 1891 in Ghent, Belgium...

, An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous...

, Dragon Ball Z, Portrait Of An Artist As Filipino, The Wiz
The Wiz
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...

, Otello
Otello
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887....

, Oliver
Oliver
The surname Oliver is of several different origins.-Etymology:The surname Oliver is derived from the Old French personal name Olivier. The Oliver surname seems to be French Norman in origin. The Olivers were probably part of William the Conqueror's Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066...

, The King and I
The King and I
The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...

, Carousel
Carousel
A carousel , or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders...

, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

, The Emperor's New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes
"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...

, A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...

, Bacchae, A Nightingale Sings (Lani Misalucha
Lani Misalucha
Lani Misalucha is a singer from the Philippines currently performing in the United States where she also resides. She holds shows at the Flamingo Las Vegas with the Hawaiian variety troupe Society of Seven - SOS...

 Concert), Regine Velasquez
Regine Velasquez
Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...

 Retro Concert, APO Silver Away (Apo Hiking Society Concert), “WAGI, a celebration of Filipino Victories in the Performing Arts,” BPInoy Launching (Concert of Philippine Madrigal Singers and Lea Salonga), Pinoy ICONcert | ICONnect, Concert at the Park, h t t p : / / w w w . CLARETIANO . c o m e ! ! !, As Long As I Have Music, Pag-ibig Ang Naghahari, Sing Me To Heaven, Acclamation!, Reel Tracks, Women’s Arts Festival, Some Enchanted Evening, and In High Spirits to name a few.
He was the musical director of “Search for the Amazing Philippine Singing Star,” a national television singing competition. His compositions have been used intensively locally and internationally by the Philippine Information Agency and some of his albums have been circulated in 62 countries.

Publication / Print media projects

Project Officer, Art Director, layout Artist and Book Cover Designer for selected publications of the Philippine Centennial Commission in partnership with various publishers and institutions such as the Asian Institute of Journalism & Communication, A.T.S. & Associates, Cavite Historical Society, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, New Day Publishers, Philippine Historical Association, Philippine Postal Corporation, Tawid Publications, Trademark Publishing Corporation, among others: Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo ni Jose Rizal, Salin ni Virgilio Almario (1998), Mga Himig Ng Kalayaan (1998), Pilipinas ’98, A Philippine Centennial Philatelic Handbook (in commemoration of the Centenary of Philippine Postal Service) (1998), among others; Virtuoso Events Services’ Ludwig Van Beethoven: the 5 piano concertos in commemoration of the composer’s 180th Death Anniversary (2007), Family Rosary Crusade’s 1591- 2001 Family Rosary Crusade. The 50th Anniversary of the Family Rosary Crusade in the Philippines (2001) European Union / Department of Health’s Iwas Peligro, Tulong-tulong Tayo. Isang Kwento Tungkol sa Proseso ng Referral (2001) Women Leaders: Empowering Communities for Better Health. Annual Report to the Public (2000), Women's Arts Festival: Visions, Voices and Verses: Celebrating Women’s Health through Arts (2000), Reproductive Health Modules - 12 sets (1999), and Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, Inc.’s Planning Your Re-entry. Filipino Migrant Workers Orientation Course. Migrant Savings for Alternative Investments (2001)

Logo Designer for KnightWinds (2005), Crossbridge Multimedia (2003), Shapes, Shades & Sounds (2003), Doc’s Helping Hand (2003), Les Chanteuses (2002), Himig Male Ensemble (2000),and Edunet (1999).

Art Director for various exhibits SPOTS Project Exhibit, Manila Peninsula, Makati City (2004), San Beda College Chorale Organization Exhibit (2004), SPOTS Project Exhibit, Dynasty Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City (2003), SPOTS Project Billboard Markers in Mindanao (2003), INFRES Project Exhibit, Department of Agriculture, Q.C. (2003), Women’s Health and Safe Motherhood Project – Partnerships Component Exhibit premiered in Mercure Hotel, Davao City and subsequently brought to other venues nationwide (1999–2000), Philippine Centennial Commission Exhibits in various parts of the country (1998–1999) and promotional materials (poster, flyer, brochure, etc.) of MyFarm Garden Resort (2008), Philippine Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (2008), Employers Confederation of the Philippines (2008), San Beda College Chorale (2004), DXN Products (2003), Forever Living Products (2003), Immaculate Conception Parochial School (2003), Ayala Land, Inc. (2003), and Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (2001).

Editor-In-Chief / Layout Artist of Tanglaw. The Official Publication of Claret School of Q.C. (1991–1992).
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