PAUL SCHUYLER PHILLIPS, Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University and Music Director/Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus, is an award-winning conductor, composer, pianist and author. Acclaimed as a conductor “born to stand on a podium,” he has appeared with more than 50 orchestras worldwide, including concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Columbus Symphony and Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, and recordings with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 he travels to Dublin to record new works by William Perry for Naxos with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and to Angers, France to conduct the stage premiere of Mr W.S., a Shakespeare ballet by the British composer/novelist Anthony Burgess. Phillips’s recent compositions include the full-length music theatre work War Music; War Music Suite, a concert work for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists with orchestra; and A/B, a work for actor and chamber ensemble for which he wrote the text and music. The 2009 motion picture Hachiko, starring Richard Gere, includes some of Phillips’s piano music. His published writings include “The Enigma of Variations: A Study of Stravinsky’s Final Work for Orchestra” (Music Analysis, 1984), an article cited by Richard Taruskin in Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions as “the best exposition in print of Stravinsky’s serial methods”; chapters in the books Portraits of the Artist in A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess and Modernity, and Anthony Burgess: Music in Literature and Literature in Music; the Burgess entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; and the forthcoming book A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, the first comprehensive study of the Burgess’s compositions (Manchester University Press, 2010).