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CAMILO CARLO B. MENDIOLA is a graduate of Bachelor of Science Major in Biochemistry from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. His passion for music started when he was 11 years old, as a glee club member at Colegio de Sta. Ana (formerly Sta. Ana Parochial School) under the guidance of Hector Manalo Reyes (now the assistant Master of Music of the Westminster Abbey Boys Choir, London UK) in Taguig. He was then invited to join the Tiples de Sta. Ana under the direction of then Rev. Leo Nilo C. Mangussad (rector, EDSA Shrine and former director of the ACLM) and was invited to perform together with Psalterion (composed of seminarians of the UST seminary). CAMILO started playing the organ at 12 years old with no formal education and by just practicing (playing with the keys) after school hours in the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Anne. Soon after, he was already handling choirs from the different
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barrios in Taguig and Pasig while simultaneously handling the school glee club. In College, he was a member of the UST Pharmacy Glee Club (UST-PGC), a capella Manila, and was able to train with the UST Singers (though was not able to be an official member) under Prof. Fidel Calalang Jr. After graduating college, he joined the UE Chorale under Ms. Ana Abeleda but was forced to quit to concentrate on work. Currently a member of the PCDA (Philippine Choral Directors Association), he is also a voice coach and choir trainer of several parish based choirs. He is also into music composition/arranging and has won 1st prize in the Hymn Competition of District II public schools in Pasig City and 1st prize in "Bagong Awit, Himig Handog para sa ating Patron, Mahal na Birhen ng Santo Rosario" also in Pasig City.