Organizations/Performing Group:

BAYI Philippine Women Composers, secretary, 2019-present
Ethnographies of Philippine Auditory Popular Cultures, team consultant and researcher, 2018-2023
International Association for the Study of Philippine Popular Music-Southeast Asia, member, 2019-present
Baihana, singer and arranger, 2008-present
Akapela Open, event organising committee and adjudicator, 2013-2018

Awards and Recognition:
ONE UP Faculty Grant Award in Musicology for Outstanding Teaching and Creative Work in UP Diliman, 2022-2024


Krina is a composer, arranger, and writer. She finished her degree in Choral Conducting at the University of the Philippines College of Music (2009) where she also received her degree in MM Musicology (2018). She was a faculty member of the same university’s Department of Art Studies at the College of Arts and Letters from 2012-2015. Krina performs with and arranges for the female vocal trio, Baihana, whom she has participated with in both local and international shows and jazz festivals. As a composer and arranger, her works include original compositions and sound design for theatre and short films, such as Metropolitan Theatre’s Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan (2021), Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini (2014), #R/3J (2015), Angry Christ (2017), and The Kundiman Party (2018) for Dulaang UP; Bagong Cristo and Macario Sakay for UP Upsilon Sigma Phi (2017); and Sinagtala for Teatro Kolehiyo ng Miriam. Her arrangements include recordings of Filipino folk lullabies with the Cultural Center of the Philippines Arts Education (2022-2023), Handel’s Messiah performed by the UP Jazz Ensemble and the choral groups of UP (2014), new arrangements for choir, string quintet and piano of Nicanor Abelardo’s kundimans (2015), and arrangements of Philippine bodabil and radyo songs of the 1920s-1940s (2017). She has collaborated with Elena Laniog (2016), Novy Bereber (2017) and Ava Villaueva Ong (2019) for the Neo Filipino Choreographers Series.

Her current research interests include jazz and popular music cultures in the Philippines. Some of her research output include biographical essays and updates on the CCP Encyclopedia for the Performing Arts (2016 to present), a film documentary on Original Pilipino Music (2018), and a chapter on OPM in the Routledge Popular Music Series Made in Nusantara (2021). She has presented in conferences such as the International Association of the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and Keep It Simple, Make It Fast (KISMIF). Krina is currently pursuing her PhD in Music degree at the University of Edinburgh, with a research project on jazz in the Philippines from 1946 to 1986.