Joshua Angelo Mondares is a Filipino artist, musicologist, and educator currently pursuing the Master of Music in Voice at the Conservatory at Brooklyn College CUNY in New York City. His work bridges performance and scholarship, engaging Philippine musical traditions through both artistic interpretation and critical inquiry.

As a performer, Mondares has been actively involved in concert productions, lecture-presentations, and workshop settings that highlight Filipino repertoire, particularly the kundiman. He was invited to speak and present in the Kundiman: More than Just a Love Song Seminar-Workshop and Concert Gala held at the Manhattan School of Music, contributing to ongoing efforts to contextualize the genre beyond its popular characterization. His performance work is closely informed by his research, emphasizing historically and culturally grounded interpretation.

His research engages both archival and ethnographic approaches. He has conducted studies on the Tiples de Santo Domingo, examining its historical development as a boys’ choir tradition within Spanish colonial ecclesiastical structures, as well as its connections to Dominican musical and devotional practices. In addition, he has undertaken fieldwork among the B’laan community in Mindanao, focusing on the Aflalok (Flalok) narrative chant tradition as a form of oral transmission and cultural memory. His broader research projects include work on the Philippine kundiman, the Aurora Borrero art song collection, and other Philippine vocal and theatrical traditions.

Mondares has served as a Research Associate for the Musika Pilipinas Research Project, where he contributed to the study and documentation of Philippine musical traditions. His work involved conducting research on various Filipino music forms, supporting field and archival documentation, and assisting in the development of research-based educational materials. Through this role, he engaged with a wide range of repertoires, including the kundiman, sarswela, danza habanera, and Philippine opera, as well as indigenous and regional traditions.