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Vienna based pianist Aries Caces is one of the most versatile Filipino concert pianists.
Aside from being a chamber musician and repetiteur, he is also a conductor. The late Manila
critic Vilma Santiago-Felipe described him as "another gem in the Philippine music scene."
At the age of seven, he enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Conservatory of Music
as a personal scholar of Prof. Feliza Custodio. From 1980 to 1985, he attended the Philippine
High School for the Arts and the UST Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Prof. Ernestina
Crisologo and Prof. Bernardino Custodio. In 1982 he won First Prize in the National Music
Competitions for Young Artists (Piano Category). Two years later, he was runner - up in the
Manila Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competitions. Caces came to Graz, Austria in 1985 upon
the invitation and arrangement of then Austrian Ambassador to the Philippines, Dr. Friedrich Posch.
He studied with Prof. Walter Kamper at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz.
From 1986 to 1993, he was under the tutelage of world-renowned pianist Prof. Paul Badura-Skoda
at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He finished his "Diplom" in 1989
and obtained his Master's Degree (Magister Artium) in Piano Performance in 1994 under Prof.
Roland Keller. He also studied Piano Chamber Music with Prof. Georg Ebert. In 1999, he finished
his "Diplom" in Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under the tutelage of Prof. Uros
Lajovic. Caces has performed several solo recitals and various concerts in the Philippines, Austria,
Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. In 1989, he was soloist
of the Hochschulsymphonieorchester in a concert performed at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein
in Vienna. He was awarded the "Prix Decouverte" during the Festival International de Musique
in Le Touquet, France in 1991. He has also played as soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic
Orchestra, UST Symphony Orchestra and the Hannover Kammersymphonieorchester. In 2001, he was
a featured soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra during its first European tour.
He was a recipient of several scholarships, including the Makiling Academy and Research Institute
for the Arts (MARIA), UST Conservatory of Music Alumni Association, Music Promotion Foundation
of the Philippines, Cultural Center of the Philippines Young Artist's Fund and the Austrian
Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
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