Faculty and Staff

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 and upcoming 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, and performance at the American Liszt Society’s 2010 Festival.

Phillips has given lecture-recitals and presentations at a number of local, state, and international conferences, including: “Beyond a Wild Rose: the Intermediate-Level Piano Music of Edward MacDowell” and “Teaching Mendelssohn: Addressing Musical and Technical Problems Through the Songs without Words”at the 2008 and 2009 Wisconsin Music Teachers Association State Conference, 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.

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.