Organizations/Performing Group:

Harpsichordist of Musika Sophia Early Music Ensemble,
Performer, Musika Sophia Early Music Ensemble, 2006-present
Panel member, Commission on Higher Education Technical Panel on Music
Board Member, Society for Strategic Education Studies, 2018-present
Board member, UP College of Music Alumni Association, 2016-2023
Advisory committee member, Taytay, Rizal Banda Malaya 1875, 2023-present
Former Board member and co-chair of the Teaching and Learning cluster of the Southeast Asian Directors of Music, 2019-2021
Former President, Philippine Society for Music Education, 2018-2021
Former Chair on culture and arts education committee, CHED Technical Panel on Teacher Education, 2014-2017

Awards and Recognition:

Artist I, UP Artist Productivity Awards, 2019-2021
One UP Award for Teaching, Research, Public Service 2016-2024
UP Diliman Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Guro, 2024
UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair 2024


Assoc. Prof. Jocelyn Timbol-Guadalupe teaches music theory, special projects, and graduate research methods at the UP College of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Music magna cum laude, a Master of Music, and a Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology of education from UP. She has performed with Musika Sophia at the Abelardo Hall, International Bamboo Organ Festival, Paco Park, UP Manila Museum of A History of Ideas, and PETA Theater. Research projects: UP College of Music undergraduate theory entrance test standardization (2012, 2018), DOST-FPRDI-UPCE- PNU-PSME Bamboo Music Instrument documentation project (2019-2022), UPD OVCRD SOS College of Music student archives digitization project (2022-2023). Recent major published works: Contextualization and Music Education article, Philippine Journal of Education Studies (2023), Philippine Lullabies article (co-author), Akshar Whangmay India (2024), Dictionary of Filipino Musical Terms (as co-author, UPCE, 2013), Kaway-Kawayan Bamboo Music Education Lessons Volumes I and II (as editor and co-author, UPCE, 2021, 2022), Tradition and Innovation: Bamboo Music Practices of the Philippines Sourcebook (as project research leader, UPCE, 2022), Celso Espejo and Lucio San Pedro in Musika Jornal (UPCE, 2012, 2014), Serenata in Saysay Himig anthology (contributor, UP Press, 2018), Ilocano mother tongue music education (UNESCO-British Council, co-author). Advisory board memberships: Southeast Asian Directors of Music (2021-2023), Philippine Society for Music Education (Past president 2018-2021), Society for Strategic Education Studies (since 2018), UP CMu Alumni Association (2016-2023), and the Taytay Banda Malaya Uno 1875 (since 2022). Recent presentations include Moving forward with accreditation in SEA for the SouthEast Asian Directors of Music Teaching and Learning Congress 2023 (Thailand), Intersections of music education school curriculum in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand: implications for content and pedagogy for Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research 2023 (Korea), Culture and Arts Education: Engaging (ethno)musicology in higher music education for the Asia Pacific Society for Ethnomusicology 2023 (Cambodia).

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