Ruby Salvosa
Artist - Philippines
Ruby Pilante Salvosa is a pianist, conductor, Music Educator and Researcher from the Philippines. Fondly called Teacher Ruby, her teaching career started at the University of the Philippines educating Pre-College students in Music Theory and piano which later extended to giving workshops in conducting, pedagogy and literature. Having a Performance Diploma (Piano), Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Teaching Certification, her training included performamance of Philippine musical instruments like the Mindanao Kulintang, Northern Luzon Kalinga bamboo instruments and Indonesian Gamelan. Working as an educator internationally, she came across and learned the Thai Gong Music, Asian Angklung and Traditional Indian Dance and Music.
Her musicological works include field studies on Bagobo-Djangan and Kalagan tribes where she was mentored by their local teachers in the traditional system of aural learning passed through generations. She was also commissioned to write a paper on “Cultural Maps of Music and Dance” by the National Commission on Culture and Arts (NCCA) and has shared Asian and Philippine Music literature to students, educators and interested scholars along the years.
Presently, she serves as the Music Director of Temple Hill International School where she founded the Mallet Kids Arts Ensemble (M.A.K.E.) and Percussion Ensemble Arts Kids (P.E.A.K.). At the same time, she is the Vice President of the Piano Teachers’ Guild Foundation, a member of Kodaly Society, Music Educators Philippines and Percussive Arts Society where she will be one of the presenters with fellow percussionists from the Philippines and Thailand on the topic of “Deep Resonances: The Gong Cultures of Asia in the coming 50th Annual Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
