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 and class piano. Active as a soloist and sought after as a collaborative artist, Phillips is quickly building a reputation for his innovative recital programming and engaging lecture-recitals, with a special interest in introducing and reviving works and composers outside the mainstream repertoire. Upcoming performances include solo recitals in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Indiana, and a performance as soloist in Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra.

Phillips has given lecture-recitals on the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn, and recently presented a lecture-recital titled “Beyond a Wild Rose: the Intermediate-Level Piano Music of Edward MacDowell” at the 2008 Wisconsin Music Teachers Association State Conference. 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, and he has participated in master classes with Marvin Blickenstaff, Ruth Laredo, and Lars Vogt, among others. Phillips has received awards for his own teaching, including the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from the UMKC Conservatory of Music.

Courses:

MUSI 106 Class Piano
MUSI 108 Advanced Class Piano
MUSI 151/351 Applied Piano