Discipline: Music Composition

Phillip Schroeder

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Grinnell, IA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
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, Millay 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.

Studios

New Jersey

Phillip Schroeder worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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