MindanaoToday.com | Young pianist from Rosevale plays at Rodelsa Hall on Feb. 9
By: Leonides S. Biantan
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Rosevale School is inviting all classical music lovers to a night of nostalgic musical experience on Feb. 9 at the Rodelsa Hall in Liceo University main campus, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental.
Eleven-year-old Chopin ‘Wonder Pianist’ Franco Collantes Lim will headline the show which is organized by the Rosevale School administration to raise funds for the construction of the school’s brand-new ‘St. Jose Maria Escriva’ chapel inside the Rosevale campus at the posh Xavier Estates subdivision.
Franco Collantes Lim is a ‘Chopin’ prodigy who discovered his talent and passion for playing the piano at age eight during the Covid pandemic.
Chopin is a style of playing the piano, made famous and invented by Polish master pianist Frederick Chopin. Chopin playing style is light, delicate, and has lots of layers of emotions which is suited to playing in intimate settings
Franco, through the guidance of his parents lawyer Antonio Paolo Lim and Katrina Collantes Lim and through the coaching of Liceo Conservatory’s Dean Rudolf Golez and Music Theory teacher Nino Tiro, has started to master Chopin technique.
The Rosevale kid is not only a keen piano player but is also a consistent honor student of the Opus Dei run institution. Recently, Franco has been under the tutelage of Professor Jonathan Arevalo Coo.
Jonathan Arevalo Coo, studied with Rubinstein’s pupil Rebecca Penneys (Special critics prize of the International Competition) at the famous Eastman School of Music in New York. Rubinstein is Polish-American pianist and considered as one of the greatest pianist of all time.
Franco is slowly making a name for himself in front of the piano. He was even recently been to Warsaw and has performed for the Polish ambassador Jaroslaw Szczepankiewicz.
Cagayan de Oro classical music lovers do not have to be an ambassador or they do not have to travel to Warsaw to take a glimpse of the young piano master. Just show up at the Rodelsa Hall in the Liceo University main campus on Feb. 9 and enjoy the show. Special talents from the Rosevale School community will also perform some surprise numbers.
Tickets are available at P350 fr the balcony, P1,000 for the loge and P1,500 (inclusive of cocktails) for the orchestra seats. Tickets are available at the Rosevale School and at the box office. (jackbiantantambok@gmail.com)
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