Gauss performing onstage

 

ROSARIOOBENZA

”Gauss” 

 

BIRTHPLACE  Aclan, Nasipit, Agusan del Norte (moved to Davao when I was ten in 1978)

AGE see above clues

CURRENT PROFESSION freelance music and theatre performance artist and mother

EDUCATION  Davao City High School, Ateneo de Davao University (BS Chemistry)

 

HOBBIES sewing, photography, carpentry, reading, magpuyat sa Adobe Photoshop7, Cubase

SPORTS playing and dancing with my superactive 3-year old daughter Mayumi

 

YEARS IN PHOTOGRAPHY I had my first shot at digital photography on 2002 when I snatched a friend’s 3.2megapixel cybershot because he didn’t want to read the manual. I shot and shot. The photos were taken in poor setting (resolution, etc).  But my friend told me I had some well composed shots so I got hooked from then on. Now I have a 6.1 D70 NIKON

 

TRAINING, WORKSHOPS self-taught from tinkering with the camera and reading books and getting tips from friends

 

OTHER PHOTO EXHIBITS SO FAR my daughter’s cute photos can be seen in Mike Ayala’s office. Other photos can be viewed in www.earthmusic.tk, www.mebuyanpeaceproject.ph, and www.bayangbarrios.com

           

MOTTO ON ART AND LIFE “The line segment [whose length is finite] has infinite number of points”

LEARNING EXPERIENCES “Back-up your files.” I lost 1 year’s worth of pictures to cheap hard disks

FAVORITE SUBJECT INTEREST people, places, clouds, animals, flowers, anything 

 

AFFILIATIONS:

1. Mebuyan Peace Project
2. Earthmusic Foundation
3. Seventh Heaven Band

 

ARTICLE BY GEEJAY ARRIOLA from www.mebuyanpeaceproject.ph:

 

Gauss Obenza took Chemistry in university and ended up with a robust 14-year career in music. In 1987 she joined Kulturang Atin Foundation, Inc. (KAFI) as music artist for several of KAFI's plays. In 1993, Gauss joined Kaliwat Theatre Collective as on-call performer. She then joined Kathara Theatre Collective in 1994. At about the same time, Gauss toured Davao City's prestigious folkhouses singing cover songs. She soon became a local household name—the only woman singing solo, playing the guitar with amazing deft. She helped set up Bagaylan Women Quartet, an all-women music theatre group in 1996, and Seventh Heaven, now one of the most prestigious local jazz bands in Davao. Gauss was musical director for the International Women's Day Concerts in Davao City in 1996 and 1997. In 1998 Bagaylan Women Quartet was reinvented to become 4Elements, an all-women's band. Gauss, mother of Andress Havens and Mayumi Gabrielle, has performed in Malaysia, Japan, Hongkong, Australia, U.S.A., Belgium, and Switzerland. Gauss was music director and arranger for Mebuyan Peace Project 's music-dance theatre production "Panaw" as well as Earthmusic Foundation’s production “Salima.”

  

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