Harvey Phillips

Harvey Phillips is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington (appointed professor 1971 - retired May 1994). He has performed as tuba soloist throughout the world. He was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971. His first professional musicianship was with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and Gunther Schuller.

He is founder and president of the Harvey Phillips Foundation, Inc. which administers Octubafest, Tubachristmas, Tubasantas, Tubacompany, Tubajazz, etc.

Mr. Phillips is highly-regarded in the musician and tuba communities because his efforts have brought the tuba to a much wider audience and helped to free it from its unfortunate popular image of a slow, oafish instrument. He played many different forms of music in his career, showing many new possibilities for the tuba, and encouraging many younger players to become soloists and take the instrument in new directions. His creation of TubaChristmas has inspired others to create festivals for the tuba, and he has helped to build a brother/sisterhood among tuba players. Along with William Bell and Arnold Jacobs, Mr. Phillips is considered lengendary among tubists.

In 2007, Mr Phillips was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame, the only wind instrument player to receive the prestigious honor. Other inductees of the year were Yo-Yo Ma, Donald Martino and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Awards

*Principal Tuba, Circus Hall of Fame Band
*Honorary Doctor of Music New England Conservatory (1971)
*Harvey Phillips Day has been celebrated by the New England conservatory (1971) and by his home town Bi-Centennial Celebration, Marionville, Missouri (1976)
*Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1979)
*Governor of Missouri declared a Harvey Phillips Weekend (1985)
*Honorary Doctor of Humanities University of Missouri (1987)
*Association of Concert Bands "first" Mentor Ideal Award (1994)
*Sousa Foundation Sudler Medal of the Order of Merit award (1995)
*National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts Award (1995)
*United Musical Instruments Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
*American Bandmasters Association Edwin Franco Goldman Award (1996)
*Rafael Mendez Brass Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
*Colonial Euphonium-Tuba Institute Development of Musical Artistry & Opportunities Award (1997)
*Phi Mu Alpha Orpheus Award (1997)
*Inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame (2007)

External links

* [http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/phillips.html www.indiana.edu]