Gerry is a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and actor based in Highland Park, NJ who teaches private music lessons and gigs professionally around the tri-state area with numerous projects. He writes, records, and plays guitar with his own original bands, The Gerry Rosenthal Trio and  Big Wake.  He plays bass in a Beatles cover band called Hey Bulldog and guitar in a wedding band called The Jersey Joint. Between the ages of 10 and 13 he attended the St. Thomas Choir School in New York City, where he sang 5-6 church services a week. While at St. Thomas, Gerry studied piano with concert pianist Leslie Singer and music theory with composer Scott Eyerly. He was fortunate enough to tour extensively with the St. Thomas Choir, traveling to Austria, Italy, Vienna, and Ireland. While earning a History degree at Rutgers University, Gerry attended a semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he studied guitar privately with John Marasco (Eartha Kitt, Al Martino) and John Thomas (Kenny Drew, Tony Scott, Roy Haynes) as well as music theory with Jim Stinnett (bass instructor for Mike Gordon of Phish.) While in college he also studied privately on guitar with Karl Cochran (Ace Frehley, Joe Lynn Turner.)