Harvey Phillips was a professor emeritus

Emeritus

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 of the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington (appointed professor 1971 - retired May 1994) and dedicated advocate for the tuba.

Biography

Phillips was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971, winning his first professional position with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. In 1960, he co-founded The All-Star Concert Band with American cornet soloist James F. Burke. The band recorded three albums and was composed of virtually every top soloist and first chair player in the country. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski

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, Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

, and Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller

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. He was a key figure in the formation of the International Tuba Euphonium Association (formerly T.U.B.A.) and the founder and president of the Harvey Phillips Foundation, Inc. which administers Octubafest, Tubachristmas

Tubachristmas

Tubachristmas is a music concert in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach, and compose music for instruments in the tuba family...

, Tubasantas, Tubacompany, and Tubajazz

Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort

Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort is a US big band scored for low brass instruments – trombones, euphoniums, and tubas – performed by artists who are renowned in jazz or classical or both.-History:...

.

Along with William Bell

William Bell

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 and Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Jacobs was an American orchestral tuba player who was most known as the principal Tubist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1988....

, Phillips was considered legendary among tubists. In 2007, Phillips was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the only wind instrument player to receive this prestigious honor. Other inductees that year included Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

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, Donald Martino

Donald Martino

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 and the Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra

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.

Awards

• Principal Tuba, Circus
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   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
  Kappa Kappa Psi
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   Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1979)
• Governor of Missouri declared a Harvey Phillips Weekend (1985)
• Honorary Doctor of Humanities University of Missouri
  University of Missouri
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   (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
  Orpheus
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  Award (1997)
• Inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame (2007)

External links

• Jacobs School Blog
• www.indiana.edu
• Harvey Phillips interview by Bruce Duffie, April 24, 1995