Paul Phillips receives 2025 ASCAP Plus Award

Paul Phillips, Professor of Music and Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies, has been granted an ASCAP Plus Award in the Concert Music category and will receive the prize in January. The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Plus Awards program recognizes ASCAP members who compose children’s, concert, jazz, and musical theater music. The recipients of the ASCAP Plus Award are determined by an independent panel of distinguished music experts, who are neither members nor employees of ASCAP. 

Phillips has been a member of ASCAP as a composer and publisher since 1986. Although primarily active as a conductor, he earned a Masters degree in composition from Columbia University and is the recipient of dozens of commissions, grants, and prizes for his music. His compositions include opera, ballet, chamber music, choral music, song cycles, and orchestral works published by Barnard Street Music. He is also an accomplished arranger whose chamber version of Stravinsky’s opera Mavra, published by Boosey & Hawkes, has been performed by the Royal Opera House and at Glyndebourne and is featured in Bayerische Staatsoper’s Mavra/Iolanta, a 2022 DVD/Blu-ray Disc that was cited as a “Critic’s Choice” recording by Opera News.

To learn more about the ASCAP Plus Awards, visit their website.