Organizations/Performing Group:

University of the Philippines, faculty, June 1997 – present
U.P. Abelardo Hall Auditorium, artistic director, 2016-2017
U.P. Voice, Music Theater and Dance Department, chair, 2013-2015
U.P. Abelardo Hall Auditorium, artistic director, 2011-2013
Ophthalmological Foundation of the Philippines, member, 2011-2021
University of the Philippines An Balangaw Performing Arts Group, consultant, 2013-present
Streaming Classical Music and Opera- Germany, 2020-present

Awards and Recognition:

Asian Sterling Awards
Most Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Research and Performance, 2022
One U.P. Professorial Grant for 2019-2021
ARTIST RANK 1, University of the Philippines Artist Productivity System (APS) Award, 2018-2020
Recognition, Philippine Consul General Ad Honorem in Florence, Confederazione Comunita Filippina Toscana and Pilipino Immigrantes National Organization in
Arezzo, Italy August 25, 2018
Professorial Chair, University of the Philippines, On Preparing Two Handelian Operas in an International and Philippine Setting in 2018
Featured, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Encyclopedia of the Arts Second Edition in 2018
One U.P.Faculty Grant for 2015-2018
Finalist, Aliw Awards-Best Stage Director for the opera, Xerxes e Romilda, 2017
Finalist, Aliw Awards- Best Original Musical Production Xerxes e Romilda, 2017
Recognition, One of U.P.'s Most Productive Artists , April 17, 2016
Metro Manila Commission Professorial Chair for directing a Lyric Opera, Rusalka in 2014
ARTIST RANK 1, University of the Philippines Artist Productivity System (APS) Award, 2015-2017
Finalist, Aliw Awards-Best Stage Director in a Musical, Alcina 2016
Finalist, Aliw Awards-Best Musical Production for the opera, Rusalka 2015
Finalist, Aliw Awards-Best Stage Director for Rusalka 2015
ALIW Awards Hall of Famer for Best Female Classical Singer 2008
ALIW Awards Winner for Best Female Classical Singer 2007
ALIW Awards Winner for Best Female Classical Singer 2006
ALIW Awards Winner for Best Female Classical Singer 2004



Alegria O. Ferrer is an Associate Professor in Voice and Music Theater at the University of the Philippines College of Music, Diliman, Quezon City. She graduated from there with a Master’s Degree in Music- Major in Voice and Minor Studies in Theater Arts. For a two-year scholarship in Music and the German language, she studied at the Mozarteum Hochschule für Musik and the University of Salzburg, Austria. Alegria obtained her Doctor in Public Administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Professor Ferrer tackles numerous disciplines in the arts: A U.P. College of Music faculty, an international opera and production stage director, an international classical singer and actor, a culture and the arts special television host, a brand ambassadress, and a Doctor in Public Administration.

In 2016, she joined the Oberlin University in Italy summer program and the Arezzo Opera Festival as an honorary faculty and opera stage director of George Frederic Handel's opera, Alcina. She returned to Italy and directed Handel's opera, Serse (2017 and another Handelian opera, Ariodante (2018).

Alegria holds the honor of being the first ALIW AWARDS (a national award giving body for live entertainment) Hall of Fame awardee in the Female Classical Category-having won the prestigious awards three times , thrice a finalist in the best director in the “Best Director in a Musical” Category of ALIW AWARDS, a One U.P. Faculty Grant awardee, twice a University of the Philippines System Artist 1 recipient, a Professorial Chair awardee in 2014 and 2018, recognized as "One of UP's Most Productive Artists" in 2016, an exhibitor during UP's First Knowledge Festival "Utak at Puso para sa Bayan" in April 2016, is featured in the 2018 Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Encyclopedia of the Arts 2nd Edition under the Music Category, and a One U.P. Professorial Grant Awardee.

As an opera stage director, Ferrer has staged 14 full length operas and musicals.

Alegria is a One U.P. Faculty Grant awardee and has been recognized as “One of UP's Most Productive Artists" (2016) and twice a UP System Artist Awardee. She is featured in the 2018 Cultural Center of the Philippines(CCP) Encyclopedia of the Arts (2nd edition) in the Music category.

The Philippine Consul General Ad Honorem in Florence, Confederazione Comunita Filippina Toscana and Pilipino Immigrantes National Organization in Arezzo, Italy gave her recognition “for her accomplishments as an International Artist, bringing honor and pride to the country and fellow Filipinos” on August 25, 2018.

Alegria presented in international conferences in Australia (Australian Music Therapy Association), Thailand (Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music), and Germany (Streaming Classical Music and Opera) in 2020.

She served as the first official Artistic Director of the Abelardo Hall Auditorium and was a Chair of the Voice, Music Theater, and Dance Department of the U.P. College of Music.