Gerard Imutan Salonga was born on October 11,1973 and is a Filipino musical conductor, composer, and arranger.
14 Facts About Gerard Salonga
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Gerard Imutan Salonga was born on October 11,1973, in Manila, Philippines to Feliciano Genuino Salonga, a naval rear admiral and shipping company owner, and Maria Ligaya Alcantara, nee Imutan of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental.
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Gerard Salonga joined his sister Lea in singing duets in her first album, Small Voice, as well as taking part in the 8th Metro Manila Popular Music Festival as interpreters for the song entry "Musika, Lata, Sipol at La La La" by Tess Concepcion in 1985, which won second place.
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Gerard Salonga completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1994, and briefly studied music theory with Filipino composer Ryan Cayabyab.
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Gerard Salonga worked briefly at Sony Pictures as an orchestrator and music copyist before returning to the Philippines in 1999.
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Gerard Salonga initially guest-conducted and arranged music for the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and Manila Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Gerard Salonga was the musical director of Carmel House, a film scoring and post-production facility coupled with a recording studio in the suburb of Alabang, outskirt of Manila.
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In 2006, together with FILharmoniKA, Gerard Salonga embarked on a series albums of titled Musika Natin [Our Music], highlighting works by great Filipino composers, some of which have been forgotten and some never performed.
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Gerard Salonga collaborated in the contemporary album Eastern Skies with jazz guitarist Johnny Alegre.
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In 2012, Gerard Salonga began his work as the music director of the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra, a professional orchestra in Manila maintained by Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation.
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Gerard Salonga has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, The Shanghai Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, as well as the Bangkok Symphony and Philippine Philharmonic Orchestras.
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Gerard Salonga has won the Aliw Award for Best Musical Director four times, and was inducted into the Aliw Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Gerard Salonga has won the Awit Award for Best Arrangement, and is twice a winner of the Philstage Gawad Buhay award for his work as musical director of the Manila stagings of West Side Story and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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In 2011, Gerard Salonga was awarded The Outstanding Young Men award, the highest civilian award given by the President of the Philippines to Filipino achievers under the age of 40.