10:00 a.m. CAMTA BuSINESS MEETING
New Board officers announced
Election for Member of the Year
11:00 a.m. Professional Development Program
Nick Phillips, Professor of Piano, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
"Norwegian Romantic: The Piano Music of Agathe Grøndahl”
Agathe Grøndahl (1847-1907) was a concert pianist and prolific composer of works for piano. She wrote in many of the popular genres of the Romantic era – etudes, fantasy pieces, character pieces, and works that drew on Norwegian folk music. This presentation will introduce many wonderful intermediate and early-advanced level works that teachers and their students will enjoy learning.
BIOGRAPHY
Described by the New York Times as a “talented and entrepreneurial pianist” and an “able and persuasive advocate” of new music, Nicholas Phillips’ playing has been praised for its “bejeweled accuracy” (Fanfare) and as “razor-sharp yet wonderfully spirited” (American Records Guide). 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.
Phillips has given lecture-recitals and presentations at conferences in the U.S., Argentina, Croatia, England, Finland, South Africa, and South Korea. He 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 2011 he released two CDs on Albany Records; Portals and Passages, which features the piano music of American composer Ethan Wickman, and Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music. Recent releases include American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano (New Focus Recordings, 2014), featuring commissioned works written for him on that theme by 10 American composers, and Impressions (Blue Griffin Records, 2016), a collection of 21st century character pieces by living American composers. His newest release, Shift (Panoramic Recordings, 2019), features world premiere recordings of works by eight living women composers.
He holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Phillips is a Yamaha Artist. For more information, please visit www.nicholasphillips.net.