"Composing Music in the Digital Age: One Composer’s Story"

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music, Ohio University, Mark Phillips

Global Arts Festival Conference Keynote Event

Friday, April 14, 2023
11 am—noon
Walter Hall Rotunda

Speaker Bio
Mark Phillips (Ohio University Distinguished Professor Emeritus) won the 1988 Barlow International Competition for Orchestral Music, leading to collaborations with conductor Leonard Slatkin. His Violin Power appears on the SEAMUS 2015 conference CD. The World Saxophone Congress commissioned and premiered his What If for 101 saxophones. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wigmore Hall, the Festival Internacional de Música de Bogotá, the Blossom Music Festival and numerous other festivals and conferences around the world. Commissioned for a Memphis premiere, his Dreams Interrupted has received performances across the country.

He has received orchestra performances by groups such as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the NHK Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra — and has been recorded by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lark Quartet and several solo artists.

RELATED EVENTS:

The 2023 GLOBAL ARTS FESTIVAL is Friday April 14, 2023 on the Athens campus of Ohio University, featuring a full day arts conference titled "Global Arts in the Digital Age," followed by the 11th World Music and Dance Concert. On Saturday, April 15 the College of Fine Arts and the Carnegie the African Diaspora Fellowship Program presents an educators workshop featuring the use of the arts to enhance educational games and teaching on Saturday, April 15.