Raoul Carlo F. Angangco (b. 1991), also known as Miggi, is a Filipino choral conductor, sopranist, and composer-arranger. He holds a Doctor of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer teaching Choral Masterworks for the Music in General Studies program. During his time at IU as a doctoral student, he served as an Associate Instructor for the Choral Department, which involved teaching undergraduate conducting and working with a number of choral ensembles. He directed the IU All-Campus Chorus and University Chorale, and was assistant conductor for the GRAMMY®-nominated Singing Hoosiers, the award-winning contemporary vocal ensemble NOTUS, and the treble ensembles Pro Cantare and Voces Caelestes. He was also assistant chorus master for productions of Verdi’s Falstaff, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, and the world premiere of Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank.

Angangco was the Jacobs School’s recipient of the 2022 Presser Graduate Music Award for his recital-project (Sa Ináng Báyan: To the Motherland) involving the commissioning, premiering, and recording of new choral works by US-based Filipino composers Robin Estrada, Nilo Alcala, GP Eleria, and Saunder Choi with the IU Jacobs School of Music Conductors Chorus in February 2023. The recordings are now available on major streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, among others.

Angangco sits on the Artistic Board of the internationally acclaimed Philippine male choir ALERON which he served as assistant conductor and manager under Mr. Christopher Arceo. The ensemble performed as a featured choir representing the Philippines at the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona and also earned various accolades in choral competitions across Asia and Europe. Other conducting posts held priorly in the Philippines include being assistant conductor of the Villancico Vocal Ensemble (now Collegium Vocale Manila) under Dr. Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng as part of the Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival, conductor of the University of the Philippines Circuit Chorus, and conductor of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health VOX.

He has sung with multiple renowned ensembles including the Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club which was a finalist for the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing held in Maribor, Slovenia in 2012; the GRAMMY®-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices and Singing Hoosiers; and the Westminster Choir, Westminster Symphonic Choir, NOTUS, Sing Philippines Youth Choir, Asia Pacific Youth Choir, and World Youth Choir. In 2023, he was invited to join the World Youth Choir’s roster of sopranos a second time around for its alumni session tour of Croatia, Slovenia, and Hungary under Zoltán Pad.

Recent international choral engagements involve conducting at the Taipei International Choral Festival Masterclass directed by Gábor Hollerung, working with Jean-Sébastien Vallée and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Singers at the Take the Podium Conducting Symposium, performing at the Yale Summer School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as a Conducting Fellow under the mentorship of Simon Carrington, and presenting as a resource speaker on Laban for Choral Conductors for both the Philippine Choral Directors Association and IU Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.

Also an active composer-arranger, his choral works have been commissioned and performed by numerous choral institutions in concerts, competitions, and recordings in the Philippines and overseas: including ALERON, the Ateneo College Glee Club, the Dawani Women’s Chorus, the Asia Pacific Youth Choir, the Westminster Williamson Voices, the Singing Hoosiers, and the Rutgers University Voorhees Choir. He was recently featured as the arranger of multiple new liturgical song settings by Dom Joseph Bulan, SJ, recorded and published by Himig Heswita and Jesuit Communications, Philippines.

After earning his BS in Management from the Ateneo de Manila University, he went on to earn his BM in Choral Conducting, summa cum laude, from the University of the Philippines College of Music and his MM, with distinction, from Westminster Choir College. His mentors in conducting include Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng, Mark Anthony Carpio, Eudenice Palaruan, Janet Sabas-Aracama, Ma. Lourdes Hermo, Christopher Arceo, Joe Miller, James Jordan, Gabriel Crouch, Simon Carrington, Dominick DiOrio, Gwyn Richards, Betsy Burleigh, Chris Albanese, Walter Huff, and Carolann Buff. He also studied voice with countertenor Jay Carter and mezzo-soprano Judith Malafronte.