PAUL PHILLIPS is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, where he conducts the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia. In July 2021, he led the Stanford Summer Symphony in a program of music by Gustav Holst, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Jessie Montgomery, and Antonin Dvorak, and in November, guest conducts Wave with the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra plus music by Valerie Coleman, W. A. Mozart, and Johannes Brahms.
Appointed to the Stanford faculty in 2017, Phillips is also Music Advisor and an Honorary Patron of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and President-Elect of the Western Region of CODA (College Orchestra Directors Association). Previously he served as Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University and Music Director/Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Phillips is a conductor, composer, and author who has conducted more than 75 orchestras, opera companies, choirs, and ballet troupes worldwide, including the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and Choir, Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta and Orquesta Filarmońica de Río Negro (Argentina), Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Opera Providence. He has conducted recordings for Naxos with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Slovak Philharmonic, and Brown University Orchestra, whose CD Manhattan Intermezzo became the #1 best-selling Naxos recording upon its release in January 2016. He has also recorded with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Phillips's conducting honors include 1st Prize in the NOS International Conductors Course (Holland) and Wiener Meisterkurse Conductors Course (Vienna), and eleven ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
Upcoming Performances
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HALLOWEEN CONCERT
Friday, 29 October 2021 at 7:30pm • Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Program: TBA
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA
Sunday, 7 November 2021 at 2:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: MOZART Symphony No. 26 in E-flat Major, BRITTEN Simple Symphony, Concerto TBA, HAYDN Symphony No. 97 in C Major
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Friday, 12 November 2021 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Saturday, 13 November 2021 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: PHILLIPS Black Notes and White, STILL Wood Notes, GRIEG Piano Concerto in A Minor with pianist Ethan Chi (Concerto Competition Winner), COLEMAN Seven O'Clock Shout, RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 7:30pm • BCPA Concert Hall, University of Wyoming in Laramie
Program: COLEMAN Seven O'Clock Shout, PHILLIPS Wave, MOZART Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
FRIENDS OF MUSIC HOLIDAY MUSICALE with STANFORD PHILHARMONIA
Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 2:30pm • Memorial Church, Stanford University
Program: TBA
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA
Saturday, 26 February 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: MILHAUD Stanford Serenade and works TBA
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with
STANFORD SYMPHONIC CHORUS
Friday, 4 March 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: WALTON Viola Concerto with violist Addison Jadwin (Concerto Competition Winner), JANACEK Glagolitic Mass
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA TOUR to BERMUDA
22-27 March 2022 • The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts
Programs TBA
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Friday, 13 May 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program TBA
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA
Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program TBA