The Guitar Foundation of the Philippines Incorporated is a non-stock, non-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mother chapter of the organization is located in Cebu City. The Organization is composed mostly of individuals from different walks of life professionals who are either guitar players or mainly enthusiasts. It started as a small group of classical guitarists in 1972, and became a Foundation in 1990. It has embarked on several cultural activities in the national and international levels.
The main goal of the foundation is to propagate and create an appreciation towards the classical guitar in the Philippines as a worthy concert instrument deserving of the attention mostly reserved for the piano and other more established instruments of western classical music.
Among the past projects of the Guitar Foundation and the Cebu Guitar Ensemble were fund raising activities for various charity foundations in the community, including, among others, Cebu Medical Indigent Foundation, Inc. through the Archdiocese of Cebu. The Foundation and the Ensemble has tasked itself with the promotion of guitar music through free concerts in various schools, guitar clinics and seminars.
The group intends to expand its membership, especially to the young generation, to reach out, and give life to the fact that in a lot of Filipino homes there lie’s a guitar, perhaps old and battered, waiting to be awakened “by the touch of a master’s hand.”