(Conductor/Musical Director/Vocal Coach) Broadway conducting credits: Play Me a Country Song and Mame(associate conductor), Broadway National Tour conducting Cats. Regional musical direction credits: Side By Side by Sondheim at the Michigan Opera Theatre; Some Enchanted Evening at the Kennedy Center; Sleeping Beauty (St. Louis’s MUNY); The Desert Song (Papermill Playhouse), 42^nd Street (Papermill), the premiere of Rhythm Ranch (with Susan Stroman at Papermill), and the premiere of Great Expectations (Pennsylvania Stage Company). Phil composed the score for the new musical, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which has been presented at Paper Mill Playhouse, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, and North Shore Music Theatre. He wrote and arranged music for the premiere of To Kill a Mockingbird at Paper Mill Playhouse, and vocally arranged Sophisticated Ellington (Carnegie Hall) and Some Enchanted Evening. As a voice teacher and vocal coach, Phil has taught master classes and musical theatre auditioning techniques at Tanz Gesang Studio in Vienna, Austria. He maintains a considerable teaching/vocal coaching studio on the upper west side of Manhattan and is also the principal vocal arranger for Bravo Broadway symphonic concerts.

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