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]
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]
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]
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
War Music (Christopher Logue), 2005, rev. 2006
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
Weedpatch 2018
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