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Anna Tabita Abeleda Piquero (Philippines)

Anna Tabita Abeleda Piquero is an international choral conductor.

She is fondly described by her colleagues as the woman with the Midas Touch, transforming the choirs she handles into beautiful, angelic, award-winning choirs.  From ordinary university choirs, she transformed the University of the East Chorale, University of the Visayas Chorale, and the University of Asia and the Pacific Chorale into award winning choirs in a short span of time.

Her choirs reaped top awards in Asia and Europe making them a few of the best University choirs in the Philippines.

Under her, these choirs won top prizes at the Busan Choral Festival and Competition, UE Chorale who was the Grand Prix winner 2 years in a row 2006 and 2007, Koro Ilustrado who won silver and gold, and JRG Visayas Chorale who won silver and bronze in 2007.

Her style of teaching and passion for excellence allowed her to be featured as guest conductor of the Busan Metropolitan Chorus in 2010 as well as the Asian Youth Choir 2010.

She was featured as a conductor of the Indonesian Youth Choir 2018 in Bali, Indonesia, and the Three Universities Union Choir Camp in Tsing Hua, Taiwan.

Aside from conducting, she also makes her own choral arrangements of folk and pop music which are also well loved worldwide.

She was the featured arranger for the 6th Angeles City Choral Festival, 2019, and recently was declared champion of the Bondi Cara Venezia, an international choral composition and arrangement competition in Venice, Italy.   

Her choral roots were first, as a member and assistant conductor of the U.P Singing ambassadors, afterwards, as a member of the Philippine Madrigal Singers.

She served three terms as artistic board member of the Philippine Choral Directors Association.  

She now pursues her Masters in Choral Conducting at the St. Paul University, Philippines.