Angel Peña - Iyo Kailan Pa Man (audio + sheet music)

Angel Matias Peña (April 22, 1921 - December 22, 2014) is a Filipino classical and jazz composer, arranger, and bass player. He is widely considered by modern Filipino jazz musicians as “one of the founders of traditional jazz in the Philippines.”

He was born in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, to a family of musicians -- his father, Gregorio Cid Peña, studied violin at the UP; his mother, Rosario Velarde Matias, studied voice and piano at the same school, and also taught Angel solfeggio; his grandfather played guitar; and his uncles were professional violinists. He took up but did not finish music at the CEU Conservatory of Music under L.T. Sacramento. Peña was also a student of Antonio Molina who taught him composition, harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration. He has composed various compositions during his teenage years, writing a handful of kundimans for the women he would be courting. He also wrote down his first original jazz composition just before the Second World War broke out.

Tirso Cruz noticed his talent and made him a musician and arranger for the Shanghai Club Orchestra. Peña also became an arranger for the Special Services division of the US Army, Villar Recording, the Sky Room, and was also musical director for movies. He received a certificate of merit in double-bass playing under a grant (with Gary Hickling as his mentor) and a Licentiate from the Royal Schools of Music, London. He has arranged various jazz concerts for the Upsilon Sigma Phi at the University of the Philippines. He worked as the dance band leader at the Hong Kong Hilton for a time and conducted lecture-demonstrations, among others at the Thomas Jefferson Library in Manila in 1968, and at the University of Hawaii in 1975.

Angel Peña won two first prizes at the Philippine National Compositions Contests. He also received a plaque from the Order of Knights of Rizal for his composition, Homage to Rizal. He has three long playing records of original compositions released in Manila, the United States and Germany.

Angel Peña is affiliated with the Performing Rights Society Ltd of London, the United Kingdom Song Writers Guild of Great Britain, the American String Teachers' Association, the Musicians Association of Hawaii, and the Audition Committee of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra.

Among his compositions for orchestral music are Igorot Rhapsody (1958), Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1969), Concerto for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (1981) and Symphonic Variations on Two Manobo Themes (1983). He has also composed chamber music works. He also wrote musical scores for film companies, most notably LVN Pictures. His most popular kundiman is "Iyo Kailan Pa Man" with words by Levi Celerio.

(musicartspehelath.tumblr.com, The Filipino Kundiman, himig.com)

Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480p if the video is blurry.

Original audio:   / iyo-kailan-pa-man  
(Performance by: Christopher Avendano - tenor, Mary Anne Espino - piano)
Original sheet music: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...