[1] Feliciano was born on 19 February 1941, in Morong, Rizal.

[2] Francisco Feliciano graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Teacher's diploma in Music (1967) and a Masters in Music degree in Composition (1972).

In 1977, he went to the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin, Germany to obtain a diploma in Music Composition.

While at Yale University he conducted the Yale Contemporary Ensemble, considered one of the leading performing groups in America for contemporary and avant-garde music.

[3] His teachers in conducting were Arthur Weisberg and Martin Behrmann, while he studied composition under Jacob Druckman, Isang Yun, H.W.