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PHILLIP CARLSEN (b. 1951)
 Philip Carlsen, born in Coulee Dam, WA, has degrees
from the University of Washington, Brooklyn College, and the CUNY Graduate
Center. His principal composition teachers were Robert Suderburg and Jacob
Druckman. Carlsen has received fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission,
the National Institute for Art and Letters, and the National Endowment for the
Arts, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. In 1989, he was awarded the
American Composers Alliance/Town Hall Commission, which resulted in a piece for
the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Evening's Sabres. He was the winner of a
commission from the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center in
connection with the orchestra's residency history in Maine, writing a septet
entitled Maine Traveler's Advisory that was premiered at the Kennedy Center in
November 2000. In the summer of 2003, he was a composition fellow at the
Ernest Bloch Music Festival Composers Symposium in Newport, OR, for which he
wrote the quartet Far Psalteries of Summer. A member of the University of
Maine at Farmington faculty since 1982, Carlsen conducts the UMF Community
Orchestra and teaches a wide range of courses. He received UMF's
Distinguished Faculty Award in 1993, and for the 1996-97 academic year, the
Libra Professorship, an endowed chair which allowed him to devote half of his
time to composition. Currently, he teaches half-time at UMF, and half-time
at Bates College, where he conducts the Bates Orchestra.
Website: http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~carlsen/index.htm#conductor
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