Krina is a composer, arranger, writer and performer. She finished her degree in Choral Conducting at the UP College of Music (2010) where she also received her degree in MM Musicology (2018). She was a faculty member of the University of the Philippines’ Department of Art Studies at the College of Arts and Letters from 2012-2015, and is currently an assistant professor at the College of Music Department of Musicology of the same university. Krina currently performs with and arranges for the female vocal trio, Baihana, whom she has participated with in both local and international shows and jazz festivals. She teaches voice and music theory at The Music School of Ryan Cayabyab, where she was part of its organizing team for the Akapela Open competitions from 2013 to 2018. As a composer and arranger, her works include original compositions and sound design for theatre in Dulaang UP; a new arrangement of Handel’s Messiah performed by the UP Jazz Ensemble and the choral groups of UP (2014), new arrangements for choir, string quintet and piano of Nicanor Abelardo’s kundimans (2015), arrangements of Philippine bodabil and radyo songs of the 1920s-1940s (2017), Metropolitan Theater’s Lapulapu: Ang Datu ng Mactan (2021), and arrangements of Philippine folk lullabies with the CCP Arts Education (2022-2023). As a writer, her current research interests include jazz history and popular music cultures in the Philippines.
