Maria Rachelle Gerodias

A winner of “The Outstanding Young Men” and “The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s
Service” awards, Rachelle is also the first “Aliw Awards Hall of Fame” awardee for Best
Female Classical Performer, thereby cementing what many have long known: that Ms.
Gerodias is currently the country’s brightest gem in the field of opera and classical vocal
performances.

Her career has spanned more than 2 decades of critically-acclaimed and award-winning
performances. She has performed as soloist under internationally-renowned conductors
such as Georg Tintner, Yu Long, Zuohuang Chen, Uros Lajovic and Christoph
Eschenbach and as featured guest soloist with national orchestras all over the world
including the China National Symphony Orchestra, Vietnam National Symphony
Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, the
L’Orchestra Citta di Firenze and the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Her collaboration with Mirella Freni gives her the distinction of being the only Filipina to
have ever worked with the legendary opera diva.

In 2008, she made her European opera debut as Liu in Puccini’s Turandot at the
Volksoper Wien in Vienna, Austria. In 2010, she performed the lead role with an
international cast of singers in a production of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” for the Daegu
International Opera Festival in South Korea, thus making her the first Filipina to perform
at the Daegu Opera House. And in 2012 she essayed the role of Zerlina in Mozart’s Don
Giovanni at the same Festival in Korea. She is a regular guest at the Singapore Lyric
Opera where she has performed lead roles in numerous opera productions where she
was cited by critic Derek Lim: “It was soprano Rachelle Gerodias, however, who clearly
stole the show. She has a radiant, starry quality about her presence,,,it was in Puccini
and Verdi that she truly shown, with such sincere identification with the characters that
she was the character.”

Ms. Gerodias received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance and Literature from
the famed Eastman School of Music, in New York; she holds a Professional Diploma in
Opera studies from the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts; in Manila she
studied under Prof. Gloria Coronel at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of
Music. She owns the Gerodias-Park Music Studio where, along with her husband,
Korean Baritone Byeong In Park, she mentors and trains aspiring young singers. Ms.
Gerodias was a regular guest at the multi-awarded TV musical, “Aawitan Kita.”
Furthermore, Ms. Gerodias can be heard on several CD recordings with renowned
Filipino and International artists. In 2013 she released her first solo album, “Philippine
Art Songs” with Dr. Raul Sunico on the piano.