HONORS AND AWARDS

• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in Music, 1954

• Presidential Award of Merit as Woman Composer, 1956

• Presidential Award of Merit and Gold Medal for Leadership and Outstanding Contribution to Music and the Arts, 1960

• Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Music for the Toccata for Winds and Percussion (1960) and Misang Pilipino (1966)

• Honorary Doctor of Music from Centro Escolar University, 1975

• Honorary Doctor of Laws from the Philippine Women’s University, 1980

• Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from St. John’s University in New York, 1981

• National Artist of the Philippines, 1989

• Outstanding Filipino Award for the Arts from Jaycee Senate International, 1991