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Paul Phillips (Musical Director) is Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University, Music Director/Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus in Massachusetts, and a frequent guest conductor who has appeared with over sixty orchestras and opera companies worldwide, including the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Boston Academy of Music, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Stadttheater Lüneburg and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has led concerts with Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, Christopher O’Riley, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie and many other celebrated artists, and conducted over 900 works in performance, including staged productions of Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, Mavra, My Fair Lady, The Medium, Nutcracker, The Pirates of Penzance and Tosca. At Brown, he has conducted productions of The Magic Flute (1993), Sweeney Todd (1998) and Candide (2002). This winter, he led the Brown University Orchestra on a New Year’s concert tour of China; this spring, he guest conducts in Portugal and leads the 2007 Massachusetts All-State Orchestra. Apart from conducting, he is an acclaimed composer, pianist and author. His music theatre work War Music, based on writings by Christopher Logue, premiered at the 2005 FirstWorksProv Festival, was produced in 2006 at the Chicago Humanities Festival and will be produced this April at New York University. His book A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess is scheduled to be published this year by Manchester University Press. Phillips studied at Eastman, Columbia, Tanglewood, Aspen, and the “Mozarteum” with teachers that include Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gunther Schuller and Kurt Masur. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild and is represented by Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd.