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Filipino composer and pianist

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (31 August 1918 – 16 August 2008)^[1] was a Filipino composer and pianist.

She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

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Biography

Lucrecia "King" Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La UnionPhilippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin teacher.^{[2]: 87–88} She was Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher.

The second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura Villanueva, during which time performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old.^[2]

Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was educated at Paco Elementary School and graduated valedictorian in 1930.

She then transferred