Faculty and Staff

Dr. Nicholas S. Phillips

Assistant Professor of Music

DMA, University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.M., Indiana University
B.M., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Academic Areas: applied and class piano.

Dr. Nicholas S. Phillips
261 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-5842
Email: phillins@uwec.edu

Dr. Nicholas Phillips is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he teaches applied piano, class piano, and piano ensemble.  He is active as a soloist and collaborative artist; recent performances include solo recitals in New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Piano Quintet with the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet, a performance at the American Liszt Society's 2010 Festival, and a performance of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes on an 1841 Bösendorfer at the Romantic Piano Workshop in Greensboro, NC.  Upcoming engagements include solo recitals in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Texas, and a chamber music performance on Wisconsin Public Radio's Live from the Chazen series.

Phillips has given lecture-recitals and presentations at a number of state, national, and international conferences, including: presentations on teaching literature by Edward MacDowell and Felix Mendelssohn at the Minnesota (2010) and Wisconsin (2008, 2009) Music Teachers Association State Conferences, and two separate programs on Mendelssohn's Songs without Words at the College Music Society 2009 International Conference in Croatia, and the Seventh Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain in Bristol, UK (July, 2009).  He authored and presented a paper titled "The Influence of Technology in the Nineteenth Century on Piano Instruments, Technique, and Repertoire" at the 2007 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, and is the author of "Mendelssohn's Songs without Words Revisited: Culture, Gender, Literature, and the Role of Domestic Piano Music in Victorian England," published by VDM Verlag in 2008.

Phillips is currently working on two recording projects for Albany Records; a CD of piano music by American composer Ethan Wickman and a CD of piano music by Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991).  Please visit www.nicholasphillips.net for more details.

A native of Indiana, Phillips began formal piano lessons at Indiana University at the age of ten.  He holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music (Doctor of Musical Arts), Indiana University (Master of Music), and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude).  His teachers include internationally-renowned pianists and pedagogues Karen Taylor, Paul Barnes, Karen Shaw, and Robert Weirich.

"Portals and Passages," recenty released CD from Albany Records, features music written for solo piano by Dr. Ethan Wickman and performed by pianist Dr. Nicholas Phillips.  See the full story by the University News Bureau and read a review of the CD in the New York Times online.

Related Links:
Nicholas Phillips personal website: www.nicholasphillips.net

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Audio Excerpts by Nicholas Phillips, Piano:
Forbidden Parallels by Ethan Wickman
Inside the Hubble Toolbox Mvt. III. Imagining the Imaging Spectrograph by Ethan Wickman