Mark Phillips won the 1988 Barlow International Competition. Leonard Slatkin has conducted his music with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan. In February 2004 he had the premiere of Turning Two Hundred, a large-scale, multi-media composition for orchestra, jazz band, electronic music, video, and dance — which was commissioned by Ohio University in honor of its bicentennial. Other significant performances of his music include the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Lark Quartet, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. His music has been performed thoughout the US, and in Europe, South America, and China.

Phillips has received awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the Indiana Arts Commission, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Ohio University, Indiana University, the Delius Composition Competition, and the National Flute Society. Mr. Phillips, a member of faculty at the Ohio University School of Music since 1984, recently completed a five-year term as a Presidential Research Scholar. From 1982-84 he was a Visiting Instructor of composition at the Indiana University School of Music.  Born in Philadelphia, he holds a B.M. degree from West Virginia University and both an M.M. degree and a D.M. degree from Indiana University.

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