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Mark Phillips won the 1988
Barlow International Competition for
Orchestral Music. Leonard Slatkin has conducted his music with the St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony
Orchestra of Japan. In 2004 Phillips premiered Turning Two Hundred, a
50-minute commissioned work for orchestra, jazz band, drum corps,
handbell choir, electronic music, eight instrumental soloists, video,
and dance. Commissioned for a 2005 premiere in Memphis, his Dreams
Interrupted has received subsequent performances in Pittsburgh,
Duluth, Baltimore,
Dallas, Birmingham (AL), and Athens (Ohio). Following a national
competition, Pi Kappa
Lambda commissioned a chamber work from Phillips, which led to the
premiere of Bushwhacked! in
San Antonio, Texas (September 2006). His music
has
received hundreds of performances throughout the world —including
dozens of orchestra performances — and has been recorded by Richard
Stoltzman
and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lark Quartet, and several
solo artists. Mr. Phillips has also received awards from the Ohio
Arts
Council, the Indiana Arts Commission, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Ohio
University, Indiana University, the Delius Composition Competition, and
the National Flute Society.
Mr.
Phillips is a Distinguished Professor of Music at the Ohio University,
where he has taught since 1984. From 1982-84 he was a Visiting
Instructor of
composition at the Indiana University School of Music. Born in
Philadelphia, he holds a B.M. degree from West Virginia University and
both an M.M. degree and a D.M. degree from Indiana University.
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