Organizations/Performing Group:

UP Jazz Ensemble, Musical Director and Conductor, 1980- present
UP Wind Ensemble, Musical Director and Conductor, 1982 – 1989
UP Brass Ensemble, Leader and Director, 1980 – 1989
Philippine Youth Orchestra assistant musical Director and Trumpet soloist, 1978-1988
NAMCYA, Chair Brass Category , 2009 and NAMCYA , Chair, Brass Category , 2019
UPCM Student Council Adviser, 2009
UPCM Scholarship Committee member , 2015 - present

Awards and Recognition:

ARTIST RANK 1, UP Artist Productivity System ( APS ) Award, 2010
One UP Profesorial Chair Award , 2019
The First Citylite Jazz Achievement Award, 1989
Petron Corporation Award. 1999


Professor Raymundo R. Maigue has served the UPCM for the past 41 years.The UP Jazz Ensemble is a university based jazz group that was founded in 1977. Prof. Rayben Maigue, the musical director of the group is an accomplished trumpet player, composer and arranger. He was the chairman of the UP College of Music Winds and Percussion Department from 2007 to 2017. He has helped establish the group then and now and continues to widen jazz appreciation in the country. For his work in the field of jazz, he and the group have garnered awards three of which are worth mentioning.

In 1989, The First City Jazz Achievement Award was given them for their meritorious contributions to the Field of Philippine New Age and Jazz Music.

In 1999 by Petron Corporation for being the prime movers of jazz in the Phil; for 21 years of virtuosity as a group; and for being dedicated leaders in developing Filipino talent in the most diverse field of music, thus providing the Phil and the world a life-long source of artists who are aware of their unique mission to instill a deep love for what is noble and exemplary about being Filipino.

In 2010 Prof. Maigue was awarded by the University of the Philippines Board of Regents on recommendation of the university president the UP Arts Productivity Award for his work in the field of jazz, for his highly varied repertoire of both Filipino and traditional contemporary works. In 2019, he was also given the One UP Professorial Chair Award by the UP Board of Regents.

The UP Jazz ensemble has 20 to 40 members consisting of students and alumni of the UP College of Music. The group’s repertoire ranges from well known standard works of Jazz , Pinoy Jazz composers and arrangers. The UP Jazz Ensemble has served as a training ground for student arrangers, composers and conductors and has spawned many of our country’s professional jazz groups.