Hailed as a natural pianist combining great emotional energy, musical refinement, and fierce technical prowess by music critics and musicians, Dr. Oliver Salonga is one of the leading Filipino pianists in the Philippine classical music scene both in performance and pedagogy. Internationally, he has performed in the most prestigious concert halls around the world such as Carnegie Hall, Brahmsaal of Austria, Esplanade of Singapore, Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Sydney Opera House of Australia.  He has also given concerts in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

As an avid chamber musician, he is the pianist of Yulanhua Trio and Duo Bravura. Both chamber groups aim to bring classical music to more intimate performance spaces and to a wider audience. Salonga is an exclusive artist under the KNS Classical and he will be releasing three recording projects this year: “Russian Pictures”, “Colossos”, and “Fantasias”.

Salonga is the Gold Medal winner of the 2008 Jeonju International Piano Competition in South Korea. He has also won the Zellen Piano Prize at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the prestigious Savarick Prize at Florida Artist Guild Competition. He also won First prizes at the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in 1998 and 2001 under the guidance of Prof. Carmencita Arambulo.

Oliver Salonga received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance with minors in Theory and Analysis, Arts Management, and Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern California and his Artist Diploma and Masters degree in Piano Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has received guidance from outstanding pianists Antonio Pompabaldi, Sergei Babayan, Norman Krieger, and Roberta Rust.

He is currently a professor at the Piano Conservatory of European Academy of Fine Arts Piano Conservatory and at the University of Santo Tomas. He is also the Artistic Director of Opus Artis Institute of Music, Palmarius Pianists, and the Benavides International Piano Festival and Competition. 

His students have won first prizes in various international competitions and have been admitted to some of the finest musical institutions such as the Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, Hannover Hochschule, Tokyo College of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy. 

奧利佛‧薩隆加博士被音樂評論家和音樂家譽為天生的鋼琴家，兼具豐富的情感能量、精湛的音樂技巧和卓越的演奏技巧。他是菲律賓古典音樂界首屈一指的鋼琴家，在演奏和教學方面都取得了傑出成就。在國際舞台上，他曾在世界各地最負盛名的音樂廳演出，例如卡內基音樂廳、奧地利布拉姆斯音樂廳、新加坡濱海藝術中心、菲律賓文化中心和澳洲雪梨歌劇院。他的音樂會足跡遍佈歐洲、日本、韓國、台灣和中國。

作為一位熱忱的室內樂演奏家，他是玉蘭花三重奏和布拉瓦二重奏的鋼琴家。這兩個室內樂團致力於將古典音樂帶入更私密的演出空間，並讓更多聽眾欣賞古典音樂。薩隆加是KNS古典音樂公司的簽約藝術家，今年將發行三張專輯：《俄羅斯畫卷》（Russian Pictures）、《巨像》（Colossos）和《幻想曲》（Fantasias）。

薩隆加是2008年韓國全州國際鋼琴比賽金牌得主。他也曾榮獲克利夫蘭音樂學院澤倫鋼琴獎和佛羅裡達藝術家協會比賽著名的薩瓦里克獎。此外，在卡門西塔·阿拉姆布洛教授的指導下，他於1998年和2001年兩度榮獲全美青年藝術家音樂比賽（NAMCYA）一等獎。

奧利佛·薩隆加擁有南加州大學鋼琴演奏博士學位，輔修音樂理論與分析、藝術管理和合作藝術；以及克利夫蘭音樂學院鋼琴演奏藝術家文憑和碩士學位。他曾師從安東尼奧·龐帕巴迪、謝爾蓋·巴巴揚、諾曼·克里格和羅伯塔·魯斯特等傑出鋼琴家。

他目前是歐洲藝術學院鋼琴音樂學院和聖托馬斯大學的教授。他同時也是奧普斯·阿蒂斯音樂學院、帕爾馬裡烏斯鋼琴家協會以及貝納維德斯國際鋼琴節暨比賽的藝術總監。

他的學生在許多國際比賽中榮獲一等獎，並被茱莉亞音樂學院、曼哈頓音樂學院、皮博迪音樂學院、漢諾威音樂學院、東京音樂學院和因特洛肯藝術學院等頂尖音樂學府錄取。