Gerard Salonga is a conductor, musical arranger, orchestrator and musical director from the Philippines.
Education
Gerard completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the in 1994. He subsequently went to the United States to pursue formal musical studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he graduated summa cum laude and received Berklee"s Contemporary Writing and Production Achievement Award. Gerard worked briefly at Sony Pictures as an orchestrator and music copyist before returning to the Philippines in 1999.
Career
Gerard began his musical education, taking piano lessons, at the age of 5. Gerard is naturally associated with Lea throughout the length and breadth of her distinguished singing career, but had since successfully established his own stature and identity in Manila"s music scene.