page_title: Gerphil Flores
section_title: Formative years, training and education
hierarchical_section_title: Gerphil Flores / Career / Formative years, training and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Gerphil Flores Graduating Cum Laude, Bachelor of Music in Voice. June, 2016. University of the Philippines.
context_page_description: Gerphil Geraldine Flores is a German-Filipino classical crossover singer. In 2015, she joined the inaugural season of Asia's Got Talent, where she finished as second runner-up. A soprano, she was dubbed "Asia's Golden Girl."
context_section_description: As an infant, Flores' parents regularly brought her to the German opera houses. By the age of three, she began singing songs composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (the aria "Queen of The Night" from The Magic Flute is one of the songs) and Ludwig van Beethoven.
  After they relocated to the Philippines in 1994, Flores' love for music was further encouraged and nurtured by her family of music lovers, notably her maternal grandfather, a skilled Kundiman guitarist and her mother, who listened to different genres of music, including classical, Broadway, and jazz.
  At age 11, Flores decided to pursue a career in music. She would sing everyday and her mother would listen and observe if her daughter had hit the right pitch, or sounded flat or sharp.
  To further hone her singing, Flores had voice lessons under New York City-based soprano Evelyn Mandac during the latter's trips to Manila. Upon Mandac's advice, Flores started to formally study voice under University of the Philippines College of Music Associate Professor Katherine "Kitchy" Molina, a former chair of the university's voice, music theater, and dance department, where Flores graduated with a diploma in creative performing musical arts and majored in voice. 
  On 26 June 2016, Flores graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in music (major in voice) and a diploma in creative performing musical arts from the College of Music, University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City. She made it to the dean's list (college scholar) in the first semester of academic school year 2015–16, with a general weighted average of 1.468.
caption: Flores at the University of the Philippines Diliman, in 2016
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