WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN), the same organization that brought you the poignantly entertaining masterpiece HA IMO LA ( For You Alone) in 2014 and the memorable musical showcase of love, pain, despair and hope in LAMRAG (Ray of Light) in 2015, PROUDLY PRESENTS an epic display of outstanding artistry – HALAD (Offering) – on July 23, 2016 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. HALAD will feature the musical talent of JANET AGUILOS-CORPIN.
HALAD is Waraynon Initiative Network’s 3rd fundraising concert. DON’T MISS IT!
Janet is a teacher-director of the Children’s School House Montessori in Orange County, CA. She has a BS Education degree with a specialization in Theater Arts and Dance from the Leyte State College ( LSC) in Tacloban City, Philippines. At LSC, her charm, wit and musical talent won her the much-coveted title of Ms. LSC. She also won “Best Talent” in this pageant. In college, she was an active member of the Glee Club, played major roles in musicals and stage plays, notable of which was the lead role, Maria in the West Side Story musical.
Janet is an alumna of the world-acclaimed dance troupe, The Leyte Dance Theater and a choir member of the Charismatic Community of Tacloban which took her to an international convention in Israel where she performed in a concert.
Here in the States, when Janet is not busy at her Montessori school molding young minds to become great individuals, she devotes her time to WIN by rendering her performances to help raise funds for its projects.
Please come out on July 23, 2016, this Saturday to the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre and watch JANET AGUILOS- CORPIN, the thespian and terpsichorean, entertain you with her unique solo of a famous waray-waray song and her numbers with the WIN Chorale amd WIN Performing Group
WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN), the same organization that brought you the poignantly entertaining masterpiece HA IMO LA ( For You Alone) in 2014 and the memorable musical showcase of love, pain, despair and hope in LAMRAG (Ray of Light) in 2015, PROUDLY PRESENTS an epic display of outstanding artistry – HALAD (Offering) – on July 23, 2016 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. HALAD will feature the maestro, MELVIN GLER CORPIN and his family.
HALAD is Waraynon Initiative Network’s 3rd fundraising concert. DON’T MISS IT!
Melvin Gler Corpin is Waraynon Initiative Network’s VP for Ensemble, Training and Development. He conceptualized HA IMO LA, LAMRAG and now, HALAD and is the show’s Musical & Artistic Director. He was born and raised in the Philippines and at the very early age of 4 started to play the piano by ear, began composing and arranging songs at the age of 10. It is no wonder that he graduated cum laude from the Leyte Normal University in Tacloban City with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. After graduation, he started to organize numerous concerts of parish choirs, and the different choirs from government and public sectors in the Eastern Visayas Region (Leyte, Samar and Biliran). Likewise, he was commissioned by Philippine government officials and church leaders to write and arrange theme songs and mass songs for special events. He traveled to the different parts of the Philippines as a resource speaker for choir workshops and across continents to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Jerusalem and Australia through the charismatic movement’s Family of God’s Little Children (FGLC) of Tacloban City as a music director of the music ministry of FGLC.
Melvin has won numerous local songwriting contests in the Eastern Visayas Region of the Philippines. He was a trainer of choral groups that won competitions in the local and national levels.
While Conductor of the STEFTI Children’s Choir, the choir won major awards during multiple occasions in the National Music Competition for Young Artists at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
His extraordinary talent as musical arranger led to a collaboration with Philippine national artist Bienvenido Lumbera in arranging songs for national based stage plays. Melvin has also collaborated with songwriter Lucien Letaba in creating award-winning songs for Philippine Indie movies. He arranged Lucien’s “Di Ako Titigil” (I Won’t Stop) from the movie “Burgos” at the Golden Screen Awards of the ABS-CBN in Manila and bagged the Best Song 2014 award. Also, he arranged the FAMAS (Philippine’s OSCARS) best song nominee, “Saan Ako Tutungo” (Where Am I Going?), from the movie “Migrante” also composed by Lucien. In fact, one of the songs featured in HALAD is a Lucien Letaba original entitled “Balud” (Wave)
His musical genius is what brought him to the US. He was commissioned by the St. Monica Parish Church in Carpentersville, Illinois to be its choir’s Music Director from 2008-2011. Currently, he is the Music Director of the Our Lady of the Valley Parish Choir in Pahrump, Nevada.
Melvin is married to WIN’s songstress, the sultry and soulful, Carla Edralin Corpin. Carla is a very versatile singer who renders songs of various genres, from ballads to rock. Carla was born in Manila, Philippines. Her dad was from Ilocos, and her mom is from Iloilo. She is a nurse by profession in Las Vegas, Nevada. Carla started singing at her early formative years and has appeared in various concerts in Tacloban and the whole Eastern Visayas Region in the Philippines.
Melvin and Carla have been playing beautiful music together ever since they met. Music is the other language of their household. They passed on their musical genes to their four (4) sons who all play different instruments for the WIN ORCHESTRA.
Meldian Corpin (Jajan or Mel) is a graduate of Information Technology from ITT-TECH, Las Vegas, Nevada and plays violin, arranges for stringed orchestra. Meldian has played in different shows in California and Las Vegas.
Carlvian Corpin (Baban or Carl) is the twin brother of Meldian. He is a Licensed Practional Nurse by profession and plays violin, cello and the piano.
Mel Carlo Corpin (Meeko) plays the clarinet, piano, and guitar and is taking a Paralegal course at Northwest College in Las Vegas.
Carl Marchel Corpin (Mac) plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar, and flute and is a high school student at SECTA, Las Vegas.
Please come and watch HALAD and be entertained by the music royalty of WIN – Melvin, the virtuoso, Carla, the enchanting songbird and Mel, Carl, Meeko and Mac as they play with the rest of the fantastic musicians in the WIN Orchestra.
See you at Barnsdall on the 23rd!
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WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN), the same organization that brought you the poignantly entertaining masterpiece HA IMO LA ( For You Alone) in 2014 and the memorable musical showcase of love, pain, despair and hope in LAMRAG (Ray of Light) in 2015, PROUDLY PRESENTS an epic display of outstanding artistry – HALAD (Offering) – on July 23, 2016 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. HALAD will feature one special talent, the one and the only SHERWIN FLORES MAGALLANES.
HALAD is Waraynon Initiative Network’s 3rd fundraising concert. DON’T MISS IT!
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“Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.” – William Parrish
That quotation aptly describes what SHERWIN FLORES MAGALLANES, a.k.a. Xiao can do!
Sherwin graduated from Leyte Normal University in Tacloban, Philippines with a Bachelors Degree in Science Major in Natural Science. Although his field of study is science, his singing and dancing prowess is what has taken centerstage in his life.
Xiao, as he is fondly called by friends is a former member/choreographer of the world-acclaimed Leyte Dance Theater (a dance company in Tacloban) with focus on traditional Philippine folk dance concepts using western techniques.
While Xiao was still living in the Philippines, he became an award- winning choreographer of many festival competitions held in various cities there.
His talent in song and dance took him globe-trotting, but he has now made the US his home.
Currently, Xiao is the choreographer and artistic director of the Samahang Filipino Performing Arts of the Most Holy Trinity Church in San Jose, CA and of
The Sole Twisters whose members are mostly US-based former dancers of the Leyte Dance Theater.
This indefatigable guy is a freelance stand- up comedian/host/karaoke master at Edna’s Ichiban in South San Francisco and at Payaso Filipino Restaurant and Comedy Bar in Fremont. When not singing or dancing, Xiao tends to his day & night job as a House Manager/Administrator at Brownell Care Homes Community in San Jose, CA and as a licensed financial campaigner at World Financial Group representing various financial companies like
like TransAmerica, Nationwide, Voya, Pacific Life, and many other giant ones.
Xiao is the resident choreographer of Waraynon Initiative Network and is also the resident ethnic-folk costume designer of WIN.
As choreographer, he puts the music into a lively and expressive motion. His ingenious
costume designs provide a colorful landscape to the stage.
As a singer, he renders songs of varied genres- from pop, old school, to rap.
Don’t miss out! Come and see what Xiao has imagineered. Let him entertain you as he sings and dances with the WIN chorale and the WIN performing group.
See you at Barnsdall!
WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN), the same organization that brought you the poignantly entertaining masterpiece HA IMO LA ( For You Alone) in 2014 and the memorable musical showcase of love, pain, despair and hope in LAMRAG (Ray of Light) in 2015, PROUDLY PRESENTS an epic display of outstanding artistry – HALAD (Offering) – on July 23, 2016 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
HALAD will feature WIN’s lovely singer with a heart, MARITES “TETET” UY. HALAD is Waraynon Initiative Network’s 3rd fundraising concert. DON’T MISS IT!
“Tetet” as she is fondly called by her family and close friends graduated with the Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Major in Accounting
.
Although she has a full-time job in her field of study, Tetet seems to also devote a full-time apostolate serving the Lord as a cantor and a church choir member.
Currently, Tetet is a cantor at the Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles and was a former cantor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, also in Los Angeles from 2006-2010. Her choir experience spans many years starting from being a member of her catholic college’s student chorale and chapel choir in Tacloban and the Salt and Light Community Choir of one of the Philippines’ lovely historic churches, Sanctuario de San Antonio, located in the exclusive posh community of Forbes Park.Tetet and Gines lived in Seoul, Korea for many years and while Gines was the Hyewhadong Cathedral’s musical director, Tetet sang in its Filipino Community Choir.
And to the present day, Tetet sings soprano for the Friends in Harmony and Capilla choirs, both resident choirs of the Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana under the musical direction of her husband, Gines.
Back in the Philippines, Tetet had her share of musical competitions. She sang for a musical group and won the top prize for the Tacloban Original Pop Music Group Contest. Likewise, she won the top prize of the Subiran Regatta Original Composition Contest.
Tetet is very grateful for her “God-given Gift” and pays it forward unconditionally.
Stateside, Tetet tirelessly performs pro bono in several fundraising concerts for the church and for WIN.
Please come and watch HALAD on July 23 and let your hearts be captivated by Tetet’s sweet, angelic voice!
For those who want to donate to the 2017 WIN medical mission in Tacloban City come July 2017; Rachel Cullari has set up a way to donate online; she is an adopted Filipina, calling herself an honorary Filipina. We commend her efforts to help us.
Friends and Family,
As many of you know, I am an active member of the Waraynon Initiative Network (WIN). Our annual concert, Halad, will take place on July 23rd to help raise funds for a medical mission to Tacloban City in 2017. However, I know many of my friends and family are unable to attend, as they live on the east coast, so I setup up a YouCaring site to accept donations from those that would still like to contribute. Please take a few minutes to visit my page and learn about how I became involved with this amazing non-profit organization! Any amount, large or small, will get us one step close to helping those in need. For more information about WIN, please visit www.winarts.org or email me with any questions! Thank you in advance for considering to donate to our cause!
With love,
Rachel (an honorary Filipina)