Organizations/Performing Group:

Artistic Director. Las Pinas International Bamboo Organ Festival 2022 - Present
Conductor, Collegium Vocale Manila 2022 - Present
Philippine Choral Directors Association, President, 2016 – present
International Federation for Choral Music (World Symposium of Choral Music), Artistic Committee Member, 2021 – 2024
Asia Pacific Choir Council, Philippine Representative, 2020 – present
Music Director, New Millennium Evangelical Church, 2012 - present

Awards and Recognition:

UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair, 2023
One UP Professorial Chair Award in Music for Outstanding Creative Work and Public Service, 2022-2024
Levi Barbour Scholarship, University of Michigan, 2012
Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Award, Yale School of Music, 2010
Ani ng Dangal Award, Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, 2010
First Prize, American Choral Directors Association Conducting Competition (Graduate Level), 2009
Margot Fassler Award, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2009
Hugh Giles Prize, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2009
First Prize, National Music Competitions for Young Artists (Piano Category A1), 1992


Dr. Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng is the President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association, Artistic Director of the Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival, and Associate Professor of Music at the University of the Philippines, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting, chorus, and music history.

She is a First Prize Winner at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Graduate Conducting Competition. She also won First Prize for the A1 Piano Category of the Philippines’ National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA).

She is one of the Artistic Directors of the 2023 World Symposium for Choral Music, an event organized by the International Federation for Choral Music. She is also the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Choral Council and the Asia Choral Association. She has been an Adjudicator and the Philippine representative to the World Choir Council for the World Choir Games. For its 2018 Season, she was appointed Conductor of the Asia Pacific Youth Choir.

Her conducting and academic awards include the Levi Barbour Fellowship from the University of Michigan, the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Award from the Yale School of Music, the Margot Fassler Award and the Hugh Giles Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

For the 2023 Season, she will be a featured presenter at the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association, guest conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, and masterclass clinician at the International Conductor’s Seminar Wernigerode in Germany. She will adjudicate at the International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival and Competition (Germany) and the Bali International Choral Festival (Indonesia).

Performance and adjudication engagements have brought her to South Africa, Germany, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Spain, Vietnam, Portugal, and Singapore. She also regularly leads workshops in different parts of the Philippines.

Dr. Shangkuan-Cheng received a Bachelor of Music (summa cum laude) from the University of the Philippines, a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan.