Phillip Schroeder

Discipline: Composing

Based In: Grinnell, IA

Year at Millay: 1991

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Chamber Music Category Award, Delius Composition Contest, Delius Society, London, United Kingdom (1993); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (1988); Award Winner, New Music for Young Ensembles Competition (1983).

Website: https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/phillip-schroeder/

Phillip Schroeder is the recipient of numerous awards, commissions, and academic honors. He has composed music for orchestra, wind ensemble, live-electronics, chamber ensembles, choir, instrumental solos, and voice. His music has been variously described as “wonderfully evocative,” and continuing “a tradition of brilliance and openness” with “powerful expressive qualities that focus on subtle shadings and nuances” and described as “expansive lyrical sound-worlds.” He has appeared as a featured guest composer, lecturer, and performer at music festivals, conferences, and universities throughout the United States and Europe, and has performed his own chamber works in more than 75 concerts. He has held residencies at MacDowell, Palenville Interarts Colony, and Charles Ives Center for American Music. His awards include the Delius Composition Contest, Rhode Island Philharmonic Composers Award, and New Music for Young Ensembles Competition. His music has been featured at numerous conferences, including the annual meetings of the International Double Reed Society, International Clarinet Association, College Music Society, and Society of Composers, Inc., as well as the 11th Annual Bowling Green State University New Music and Art Festival, and Memphis State University Imagine 2000 and 2004 Festivals.