The College of Music is pleased to present the recital of guest artist Nick Phillips, piano, on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Longmire Recital Hall.
Pianist Nicholas Phillips is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he teaches applied piano, class piano, piano ensemble, piano literature, and piano pedagogy. He is active as a soloist and collaborative artist, having performed all across the United States. He has also given solo recitals and performances in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa.
In 2011 Phillips released two CDs on Albany Records: Portals and Passages, featuring piano music by American composer Ethan Wickman, and Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music, featuring solo piano music by the famous 20th-century Croatian composer. His CD project, American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano (New Focus Recordings), features commissioned works written for him by 10 American composers. Impressions was released on Blue Griffin records in 2016, and features 21st century character pieces by living American composers.
Phillips has given lecture-recitals and presentations at a number of international, national, and state conferences, including: a lecture-recital on the piano music of M.K. Ciurlinois in Helsinki, Finland, a performance of new piano works by living Korean women composers at the College Music Society 2011 International Conference in Seoul, 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.
A native of Indiana, Phillips began formal piano lessons in the preparatory program 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.
Works on the program will include:
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Op. 16, No. 3 by Clara Schumann
Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946 by Franz Schubert
Images, Book 2 by Claude Debussy
Aghavni (Doves) by Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Anne Landa Preludes by Carl Vine
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free admission and open to the public. Please see www.music.fsu.edu/Concerts-and-Events for information about the College of Music venues.
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 7:30pm
Longmire Recital Hall
Free and open to the public