Joel P. Navarro

Who is Joel P. Navarro?

Joel Magus P. Navarro is a Filipino-American conductor and music educator. He is one of the Philippines' most esteemed choral conductors. He is also a composer, singer, arranger, choral clinician, writer, producer, music minister, and book editor. He was born to a musical family, the first grandchild to Dalmacio and Felipa Pizaña, who were one of the earliest converts to Evangelical Christianity in the Philippines when the Americans came in 1898. He is the eldest of three children to Jose Navarro Navarro, Jr., a former businessman, stage actor, and orator; and Angeles Pizaña, a mezzo-soprano, music educator, and choir conductor. His siblings are Jeriel David, and Arlene Grace, a clinical counselor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Navarro was also involved in drama, musical theater, and opera during his college days. He was Creon in Jean Anouilh's "Antigone" in a play directed by Behn Cervantes, professor of drama and theater at the University of the Philippines.