Paul Phillips, academia
PAUL PHILLIPS holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Music at Brown University, where he has taught private lessons in conducting and composition as well as courses in music theory, composition, score reading and conducting, musicology, and interdisciplinary courses involving music’s relationship with science, mathematics, history and literature. As Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music, he administers all performance activity in these areas, and as Director of the String Instrument Division of the Applied Music Program, oversees individual instruction of violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass, harp and classical guitar. He also serves as a Faculty Advising Fellow. His students been awarded Rhodes, Truman, Marshall, Fulbright and other prestigious scholarships and fellowships. They have gone on to graduate study at Curtis, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Eastman, Indiana University, the Royal Northern College of Music in England, and other leading schools of music, and pursued successful careers as performers, composers and teachers. Former students who have succeeded on Broadway include Charlie Alterman, musical director of Next to Normal, and John Lloyd Young, who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys.
COURSES TAUGHT AT BROWN
Composition, Score Reading and Conducting
Independent Study: Composition
Music History and Interdisciplinary Courses
Harmonic Convergence: Music’s Intersections with Science, Mathematics, History and Literature
Masters of Music: A Clockwork Counterpoint – The World of Anthony Burgess
Music Performance
Theory and Composition
Fundamentals of Music (discontinued)
NOTABLE FORMER STUDENTS
Charlie Alterman • musical director and pianist. BA Brown ’97. Musical director of Broadway production
of Next to Normal.
Matthew Garrett • tenor. BA Brown ’99, MM Juilliard ’03 (voice). Former conducting student and Brown
University Orchestra Assistant Conductor.
Jonathan Girard • orchestral conductor. Former private conducting student currently enrolled in the
doctoral orchestral conducting program at the Eastman School of Music.
Calvin Lee • surgeon, acupuncturist, violinist, and pianist. BS Brown ’93, MD Brown ’96. Member of the
Vinay Parameswaran • conductor. BA Brown ’09. Former conducting student and Brown University
Orchestra Assistant Conductor currently enrolled in the graduate orchestral conducting program at the
Jason Smoller • oboist. BA Brown ’09. Former Brown University Orchestra Assistant currently enrolled in
the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music.
John Lloyd Young • actor. BA Brown ’98. Winner of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a
Musical for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the Broadway musical Jersey Boys.
