Tom Gerou is the author of over 170 active publications. His pieces are included in the Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus, Trinity College London Syllabus, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Bulletin. He holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Yale University and has been awarded two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for best original theatrical music, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, two Rena Greenwald Awards, commissions from the Music Teachers National Association, numerous Music Publishers Association Paul Revere Awards, and the Jimmy McHugh Composition Prize. He has presented throughout Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.