Paul Phillips
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, 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.
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Paul Phillips
- Born
- 1956 · Newark.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- conductor · composer · researcher
- Education
- Columbia University · University of Cincinnati · Eastman School of Music · Columbia University School of the Arts
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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. 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 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. In 2017 Phillips became Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford.
Concert works
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
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
Opera
Weedpatch 2018 • Libretto by Bill Harley. Commissioned by North Cambridge Family Opera.
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. Phillips has written an encyclopedia entry on Burgess and several articles on the composer. 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.
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