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Office: 137 Powell Hall
P.O. Box 6968
Radford, VA 24142
Phone (540)831-5398
Fax (540)831-6133
dphillip@radford.edu |
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EDUCATION
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance (April, 1977)
The University of Michigan -
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Master of Music in Composition (August, 1974)
The University of Michigan -
Ann Arbor Michigan
Master of Music in Piano Performance (May, 1973)
The University of Michigan -
Ann Arbor Michigan
Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance (May, 1971)
George Peabody College - Nashville, Tennessee
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DAVID BRANDON PHILLIPS is an active
pianist and composer as well as a lecturer and clinician. He performs
often in solo recitals, lecture/recitals and has performed in chamber
music ensembles as well as with symphony orchestra and wind ensemble.
His compositions have been performed by various soloists and ensembles
and he has received several commissions for his work. He came to Radford
University in the Fall of 1976 after receiving the Doctor of Musical
Arts from the University of Michigan under the direction of well-known
concert artist Gyorgy Sandor. While at the University of Michigan, he
also completed two Master of Music Degrees, one in Piano Performance and
the other in Composition. His composition teachers included Pulitzer
Prize winning composers Ross Lee Finney and William Bolcom.
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to Radford University, He was instrumental in setting up the
Jury System for all music majors and minors and was
responsible for adding accompanying to the curriculum in the
Music Department. He also was responsible for establishing
the specific requirements for piano students in the Level
System. He presently teaches Applied Piano, Composition,
Class Piano and Form and Analysis.
He is actively a member of the
Virginia Music Teachers Association, serving as president
during 2003-2005. He was a judge for the adult division of
the International Bartok/Kabalevsky/Prokofieff Piano
Competition almost every year since its inception and has
also judged numerous festivals and competitions sponsored by
the Virginia Music Teachers Association and the Virginia
Federation of Music Clubs. He is presently a permanent
member of the Scholarship Committee, chairman of the
Curriculum Committee and chairman of the Piano Faculty in
the Music Department at Radford University.
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His most recent solo piano recital
featured the complete Transcendental Etudes by Franz Lizst, which he
performed in several concerts throughout Virginia and at the University
of Kentucky in Lexington. |
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