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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

WORKS

Percussion
Evening's Sabres (marimba quartet)
Morning Star (soprano voice/vibraphone duet)