The guild embraces a community music therapy approach, to create inclusive and meaningful musical experiences. GuiGuil (Guitar Guild) formed on February of 2013, is mainly composed of guitar concentration and minor students in the UP College of Music, students from the UP College of Music Extension Program, students from other colleges of UP Diliman like Architecture and Physics and guitar enthusi
asts. Currently, it has members from Ateneo de Manila High School and Philippine Normal University. The group was formed with the initiation of Mr. GuiGuil is an official performing group under the Junior Music Educators' Guild (JMEG), an organization under the Music Education Department of UP CMu. The group actively participates and performs in the department's recitals, culminating activities, workshops and other activities inside and outside of the college. They have performed in guitar festivals such as PWU Guitar Festival 2015, Manila GuitarFest 2016 & 2017 and Cebu International Guitar Music Festival 2017. GuiGuil recently won the First Prize in the 2017 St. Scholastica's College Classical Guitar Competition - Ensemble Category, held on the 23rd of June in St. Scholastica's College Manila. The group aims to foster the ensemble playing experience of the members, develop musicality and sight-reading skills while also being a laboratory ensemble for arrangers, composers, and conductors and for the guitar methods class. Whenever possible, GuiGuil tries to give the audience a chance to learn more about the classical guitar and the repertoire through quick lectures in between pieces. These lectures are facilitated by the members themselves. The group offers a wide range of repertoire from pop music all the way to baroque music. Most of which are also specially arranged by the members for the group.
