Paul Phillips (conductor)
Paul Schuyler Phillips (born April 28, 1956) is an American conductor, composer and music scholar. He is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies,[1] and Professor of Music at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, and Stanford Summer Symphony. He has written on Igor Stravinsky and Anthony Burgess.[2]
Conducting
In 1982 Phillips became Michael Gielen’s conducting assistant at the Frankfurt Opera, and was appointed 1st Kapellmeister and Chorus Director at Stadttheater Lüneburg the following year.[3] Following positions at the Greensboro Symphony, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and the Savannah Symphony, in 1989 Phillips became Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University[4] concurrent with an appointment as Associate Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. In 1994 he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony & Chorus.[4] In 2017 Phillips became Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford.[1]
Music scholarship
Phillips is the editor of The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993 by Anthony Burgess and author of A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, which examines the relationship between Burgess's music and his writings.[5] Phillips has written an encyclopedia entry on Burgess and several articles on the composer.[6]
In 1999 Phillips was featured as a performer and commentator on Anthony Burgess's music in the BBC television documentary The Burgess Variations, directed by David Thompson.[7]
Composition
Concert works
Sweet Thunder [12 pianos], 2023 Brass Knuckles [orch], 2016 Wave [orch], 2014 Battle-Pieces (Melville) [B & piano; also B & orchestra], 2011 War Music Suite (Logue) [STB soli & orchestra], 2009 A/B: A 90th Birthday Celebration of Anthony Burgess (Phillips) [actor & chamber ensemble], 2007 Invocation (Rumi) [S, fl, pf], 2004 Black Notes and White [brass, perc, org], 2001 Three Burgess Lyrics (Burgess) [SATB chorus, vln, pf], 1999 Celestial Harmonies [ballet for string orch], 1997 Brownian Motion [orch], 1995 Come On Out and Play (Harley) [singer-narrator & orch], 1996 (based on a story by singer/songwriter Bill Harley) Miracle Songs (various) [S & piano], 1987
Stage works
War Music (Christopher Logue), 2005, rev. 2006
- 90-minute music theatre piece based on Logue's adaptation of The Iliad. Commissioned by the RI-based performance ensemble Aurea; premiered September 2005 at the FirstWorksProv Festival in Providence, Rhode Island; revived 2006 at the Chicago Humanities Festival and 2007 at the New York Festival of the Humanities.
Mann ist Mann (Brecht), 1984 Dorothees Abenteuer im Lande des Zauberers von Ooz [Dorothy's Adventures in the Land of the Wizard of Oz] (Baum), 1983 Pericles (Shakespeare), 1978
Opera
Weedpatch 2018
- Libretto by Bill Harley. Commissioned by North Cambridge Family Opera.
References
- ^ ab"Paul Phillips | Department of Music".
- ^"New conductor appointed for Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia". 12 June 2017.
- ^"Carcanet Press - Paul Phillips". www.carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ ab"Paul Phillips". Columbia University.
- ^Rowley, Carly Eloise (2013). "A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips (Review)". Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. 7 (1): 95–99.
- ^Anthony Burgess: Music in Literature and Literature in Music. ASIN 1443811165.
- ^The Burgess Variations (TV Mini Series 1999– ) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-06-19 – via m.imdb.com.
External links
- "Faculty: Paul Phillips", Stanford Profile
- 1956 births
- Aspen Music Festival and School alumni
- Brown University faculty
- American male conductors (music)
- 20th-century American classical composers
- 21st-century American classical composers
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
- Eastman School of Music alumni
- Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
- Pupils of Samuel Adler (composer)
- Living people
- American male classical composers
- Classical musicians from New York (state)
- Classical musicians from New Jersey
- 20th-century American conductors (music)
- 21st-century American conductors (music)
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians