JB Phillips

Conductor Peter Phillips is one of the leading lights in the world of British choral music, best known as the director of the prolific and durable group The Tallis Scholars. He is also a noted scholar, radio and television presenter who has done much to popularize Renaissance music, a music label founder and executive, and an educator. Phillips was born on October 15, 1953, in Southampton, England. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford University, as an organ scholar. By the time he graduated in 1975, he had gained a grounding not only in choral and organ music but in music history, studying with two of the leading British musicologists of the day, Denis Arnold and David Wulstan. In 1973, Phillips assembled a group of singers from Oxford and Cambridge to perform Renaissance music and named them The Tallis Scholars in honor of English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. The term "Scholars" was not merely fanciful, for the singers were all choral scholars from the various colleges of the two universities. Phillips held teaching posts at Oxford, the Royal College of Music, and Trinity College of Music, but the activities of The Tallis Scholars expanded after they established themselves formally in 1978.

A Window into the Past - Great Composers of the Xxth Century, Vol. 2. Piano Music from the Golden Age by Peter Phillips

Bien qu’il naquit Australien en 1882, le compositeur, pianiste et « arrangeur » Percy Grainger déroula la majeure partie de sa carrière en Europe jusqu’à la Première Guerre mondiale, puis aux États-Unis où il mourut en 1961. Il faut dire qu’à cette époque les grandes possibilités de carrière ne foisonnaient pas « Down Under » (expression anglo-saxonne utilisée pour désigner l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande), alors que les grands centres musicaux se trouvaient à Berlin, Paris, Londres ou New York. Fortement influencé par Grieg dont il fut l’ami à la fin de la vie du maître norvégien, il se pencha sur bien des traditions nordiques et se fit le champion de la collecte de mélodies folkloriques scandinaves. Mais ce n’était là qu’un pan de sa carrière, puisqu’il fut aussi un pianiste virtuose très demandé, un accompagnateur apparemment génial, et un compositeur productif et inventif.

As a composer, she has explored various genres of music for film. She composed the soundtrack for the promotional video of the new building for the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Malaga created by the architect Eduardo Pérez Gómez. She has also composed a piece for piano quintet for Lynn University (Florida), which will be premiered in both the USA and Italy.

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