The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 4 | No. 04 | Cagayan de Oro City | September 5-11, 2016
The Night Stalker:
MKA Kumbira Student Overall Champ for 2nd straight year Tops 5 of 9 contests entered
M
onster Kitchen Academy continues to dominate Kumbira for the fifth straight year.
After winning the overall championship in the Professional category of the competitions for three straight years (2012-2013-2014), MKA is one year removed from an encore in the student category with its repeat championship in this 20th milestone year of Kumbira, the biggest culinary event and competition outside Metro Manila organized by the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (COHARA). “There’s no magic formula,” admits Maggie J. Uy, the other half of the dynamic duo who jointly run MKA and other affiliate food related enterprises. “It’s simply commitment, determination, hard work
and lots of prayers.” “Our hard working team is always up to the challenge for every competition,” Maggie’s hubby Jan says. “From the back room support staff to our competent chef instructors who always make sure that our students are pushed to their limits to perform their very best. More than winning every competition, it’s always the experience, fun, and fellowship that matters in the end.” MKA was top winners in the Chef Wars, My MKA is Overall Student Champion for Kumbira 20. Own Umami Creation and Best Filipino Umami Dish and will represent the region in these categories in the National Food Showdown champ/PAGE 5
Austria’s World-Renowned Trio 3:0 to perform Sept. 8 at Rodelsa Hall
The renowned Trio 3:0 of Austria will have its first concert tour to Philippines this September at the invitation and with the support of the Austrian Embassy Manila. Besides concerts in Manila and Cagayan de Oro, the group will also conduct master classes in the same venues. The Trio came together as a group in MKA team busy with the award-winning My Own Umami the course of six years, Creation Creamy Monggo Soup with Shrimp Molo coming together to play
in events and then going their separate ways before deciding to come together as The Trio 3:0. They first performed together in 2006 at Salzburg, Austria to celebrate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th birthday. Eva Steinschaden (violin), Detlef Mielke (piano) and Alexander Vavtar (cello) found themselves performing together for the world première of a chamber
opera, Der Zauberspiegel [The Magic Mirror] by the Austrian composer Ludwig Nussbichler. Although they had never before played as a trio, the three musicians – all of whom had wide experience in all kinds of chamber music – knew each other (Salzburg is a village!), and embraced the project with enthusiasm. The press reported: “A truly splendid conclusion to the 2006
Mozart anniversary. Certainly one of the most unpretentious and lasting contributions to the Mozart celebrations.” After this success, the three went their separate ways, and – musically speaking – lost sight of one another until 2008, when contemporary music brought them together again at the first Salzburg performance of Friedrich Cerha’s Piano Trio (2005), on trio/PAGE 2
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