Ria is a Filipino composer, arranger, and pianist with several major albums, live concerts, television appearances, and TV scores to her credit. She has worked with Gerard Salonga, Johnny Alegre, Lea Salonga, Bob Aves, Maestro Angel Pena, Bamboo, and Mishka Adams, just to name a few.
She received her Bachelor's Degree in Music, majoring in Composition from the University of The Philippines in 2005. She has studied under Dr. Ramon Santos, Prof. Chino Toledo, visiting professor Gary Nash, and Dr. Jonas Baes. She was the pianist of the UP Jazz Ensemble from 2001 to 2005.
In 2005 she was chosen to represent the Philippines at the 2005 Asian Composers' League Young Composers' Competition (held in Thailand), where her composition, "Trees," was premiered.
Also in 2005, she was commissioned by the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) to compose its contest piece for its Voice competition category.
As a pianist, she currently plays for the world jazz group, the Bob Aves Group. In 2008 they played in Zhu Jia Jiao, China (World Music Festival), and Gapyeong, Korea (Jarasum Jazz Festival).
Currently, she is working as an in-house musical arranger for Carmel House Studios, and the music group FILharmoniKa (led by Gerard Salonga), where she composes and arranges music for a wide range of projects: cartoon scores; live shows; and albums.
Her most recent major projects include orchestral arrangements for Lea Salonga's album Inspired (where she also played piano), all the arrangements for Johnny Alegre's jazz/orchestral album Eastern Skies, the original theme song and scoring for Shelldon (an Asian cartoon), the original music scores of Jippy the Jeepney (a cartoon series), orchestral arrangements for the Rock Orchestra album, Kumpas, and arrangements for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
She is also a resident arranger for the television show, Singing Bee (2008 Philippine Franchise), and continues to write arrangements for various major artists in the music industry.
When procrastinating, she loves to read, eat out, or blog.
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Selected 2008 Projects:
live and/or album arrangements (orchestra and/or band) for:
FILharmoniKa
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Lee Hom Wang
Lea Salonga
Ogie Alcasid 20 20 concert
Martin Nievera XXV concert
Regine Velasquez
The CompanY album, Group Hug
Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation
Level Up Live 2008
Singing Bee
Reymond Sajor
Aiza Seguerra album, "Open Arms" (carrier single)
Bob Aves group live shows
Selected 2007 Projects:
Johnny Alegre Eastern Skies album
Jippy the Jeepney cartoon scores
Terry the Tarsier cartoon scores
Kumpas OPM orchestra album
BAYO show (arrangements for Kitchie Nadal, Rico Blanco, Barbie Almalbis)
Agot Isidro live arrangements
Shelldon cartoon scores
Jaya "Cool Change" album arrangement
Lea Salonga live arrangements (province tour)
Selected 2006 Projects:
Lea Salonga Inspired album
Angel Pena Ugnayan album
Office of the Ombudsman
, as Musical Director
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CONTACT
email: ria [at] filharmonika [dot] com
or at rvo [at] riaosorio [dot] com
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FILharmoniKa and Carmel House Studios
for inquiries, email dj [at] filharmonika [dot] com