“Music Director Paul Phillips will leave the Pioneer Valley Symphony after 23 seasons to accept the post of Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California,” writes Clifton Noble Jr. in Tuesday’s (7/18) Republican (Springfield, Mass.). “In addition to ending his tenure with the orchestra, Phillips will leave his position as a lecturer and music director of the Brown University Symphony Orchestra…. Phillips will have the rank of professor at Stanford, higher than the lecturer position he held at Brown…. During Phillips’ 23 seasons with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the orchestra won three ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming, received the New England Public Radio Arts and Humanities Award for Outstanding Organization, and represented Massachusetts in the [League of American Orchestras’] Ford Made in America Project…. Of his accomplishments with symphony, Phillips said, ‘The two things I’m most proud of are our Educational Concert series and the breadth of our programming.’ … At Stanford … in addition to directing the two orchestras, he will teach conducting and academic courses, as well as working with the Stanford New Music Ensemble…. The [Pioneer Valley Symphony’s] new music director will be named after the conclusion of the 2017-2018 season.”
Posted July 19, 2017
