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

  1. ^ a b "Paul Phillips | Department of Music".
  2. ^ "New conductor appointed for Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia". 12 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Carcanet Press - Paul Phillips". www.carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  4. ^ a b "Paul Phillips". Columbia University.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Anthony Burgess: Music in Literature and Literature in Music. ASIN 1443811165.
  7. ^ The Burgess Variations (TV Mini Series 1999– ) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-06-19 – via m.imdb.com.
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