Alde Calongcagong obtained his Bachelors of Music in piano performance from the University of Windsor and his Masters of Music at Western University. His principal piano instructors inlude Dr. Gregory Butler and Ronald Turini.

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Alde has also had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with Jane Coop, Dang Thai Son, Janina Fialkowska and Tom Plaunt. He maintains a successful music studio in the Windsor area and is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association where he served on Provincial Council.  Currently he is the Awards and Competition Chair for the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association.

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Many of his students have entered university music programs and have won top prizes and scholarships at local, provincial and national music competitions. Alde has been active as an adjudicator, piano tutor at the Walkerville Centre for the Creative Arts, sessional instructor at the University of Windsor, choral accompanist at the University of Windsor and Windsor Symphony Orchestra Chorus and an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music.

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Highlights include piano soloist with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and recitals at the Glenn Gould Studio and Koerner Hall.