Paul Phillips

conductor • composer • author

 

Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music, Brown University

Music Director and Conductor, Brown University Orchestra

Music Director and Conductor, Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus

Composer of music for the concert hall, theatre, film, and television,

including Brownian Motion, Celestial Harmonies, War Music, War Music Suite,

Battle-Pieces, and works composed with two-time Grammy Award winner Bill Harley.

Author of A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

(Manchester University Press, publication date October 2010) and other writings on Burgess, Stravinsky, and various musical topics.

PAUL’S LATEST NEWS In April 2010, Paul and the Pioneer Valley Symphony hosted EarShot, the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network. Along with mentor composers Lewis Spratlan and Derek Bermel, Paul provided guidance to the four emerging composers whose works received orchestral readings that he conducted. In May 2010, Paul was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Music Center beginning in July. In June 2010, Paul conducted the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in recording sessions for a new Naxos CD of music by William Perry. The soloists on the recording are the Duo Albek from Switzerland and the American pianist Michael Chertock. The producer is Tim Handley, who has won eight Grammy Awards. The Journal of Music has published Paul’s new article on Anthony Burgess’s dual career as a composer and author. The article, titled “That Was Me”, appears in the June-July 2010 issue. In August 2010, Paul’s reduced orchestration of Stravinsky’s opera Mavra, which was recently published by Boosey and Hawkes, will be performed at the Glyndebourne Festival. On 19 and 20 November 2010, Paul will conduct the first staged production of Anthony Burgess’s Shakespeare ballet Mr W.S. These performances, at the Grand Théâtre in Angers, France, will be played by the Orchestra of the Conservatoire du Rayonnement Régional d’Angers and danced by the Paris-based troupe Compagnie Marie-Laure Agrapart. The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange, scheduled to be published on 20 December 2010, will include an essay by Paul on musical aspects of the novel.http://www.earshotnetwork.org/index.htmlhttp://www.lewisspratlan.com/http://www.derekbermel.com/http://www.amc.net/about/board.aspxhttp://www.amc.net/http://www.rte.ie/performinggroups/nationalsymphonyorchestra/rtenso2010-2011seasonbooking.htmlhttp://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?op=784&displayMenu=In_the_Studio&type=2http://trobriandmusic.com/wpp/wpp.htmlhttp://www.duoalbek.com/splash/http://michaelchertock.com/default.aspxhttp://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?pn=news&displaymenu=naxos_news&op=202http://journalofmusic.com/http://journalofmusic.com/article/1172http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_results.asp?composerid=20206&stype=1http://www.boosey.com/http://www.glyndebourne.com/events/renard_and_mavra_double_bill/http://www.anthonyburgess.org/news/mr-w-s-.htmhttp://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Orange-Norton-Critical-Editions/dp/0393928098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278622477&sr=8-1http://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?op=784&displayMenu=In_the_Studio&type=2shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17