Original Composition Adjudicator

Alejandro D. Consolacion II enjoys a dual career as organist and composer. He studied organ with Thomas Dressler, Matthew Lewis and Peter Richard Conte. He also attended master classes with Guy Bovet, Frederic Blanc and Jeffrey Brillhart. He finished his masters in Organ Performance degree at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and received his Performance and Licentiate Diploma from the Royal School of Music in London, with distinction. He is a former Organ Scholar of the Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey and was Director of Music at the Episcopal Church of Princeton University. As an concert organist, he has given solo recitals at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, in Manila Philippines and Taipei Cultural Center.

Presently, he is the artist-in-residence and organist at the Union Church of Manila and a member of the Pamantasan ng Lunsod ng Maynila (PLM), teaching Music Theory and Composition. He is also the organist of the Coro San Antonio at the Sanctuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City and the Music Director – Conductor of CANTUS, a community based choir based in Manila.

He was a finalist at the Organ Improvisation Competition in Detmold, Germany (2013), and was awarded the second prize and the audience prize at the International Organ Improvisation Competition in 2015 and 2018 at the University of Michigan, sponsored by the American Guild of Organist. He was also the first place winner of the composition competition at Westminster College in 2013 and first place winner for the Timpalak Kundiman sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in 2022. In 2018 the Manila Symphony Orchestra commissioned him to write an Orchestral Suite "Dekada 70", a work in three movements for full orchestra.

His works are published worldwide by Hinshaw, GIA, Santa Barbara, Pavane, Hal Leonard, Pana Musica, Sheet Music Plus and Muziksea. His recordings are released under the Paulines Records and Diego Cera in Manila, Philippines and CPO Label in Europe.