Piano Concerto (Santiago)

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto in B-flat minor was written in 1924 as his doctoral dissertation while he was studying at Chicago.

The premiere in Chicago and subsequent performances in Manila in 1925 were positively received;[1] Santiago's professors and critics locally and abroad hailed the work as the composer's masterpiece.

In 1952, the Antipolo Church Reconstruction Committee planned a concert featuring Francisco Santiago's compositions.

The Committee sponsored the reconstruction of several of Santiago's destroyed works, including the Concerto.

[3] With the help of Santiago's former colleagues Antonino Buenaventura, Antonio Molina, and Felipe Padilla de Leon and others, they finished reconstructing the Concerto on September 12, 1952, and it was performed shortly after.