Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

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Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag, Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Kasilag, a violinist and a violin teacher. She was the first solfeggio teacher of Kasilag. The second teacher of Kasilag was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Afterwards, Kasilag studied under Doña Pura Villanueva. It was during this time that Kasilag performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old.

Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was educated at Paco Elementary School and graduated valedictorian in 1930. She then transferred to Philippine Women's University for high school, where in 1933 she also graduated as valedictorian. For college, she graduated cum laude in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English, in the same university. She also studied music at St. Scholastica’s College in Malate, Manila, with Sister Baptista Battig, graduating with a Music Teacher's Diploma, major in piano, in 1939.