Philip Griffin

Philip Griffin is an Australian musician, composer, conductor and music educator.

Life

Griffin studied from 1984 to 1988 at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music , where he received a diploma in classical guitar and a Bachelor of Music degree in conducting. After studying pedagogy at the University of Adelaide (Diploma 2008), he graduated from the University of Auckland in 2012 with a master's degree in classical singing. His teachers included Ross Daly and Christos Zotos (Laouto), Brian Black (guitar), Erdinç Şenyaylar (Oud), Linsey Pollak (Macedonian music), Megan Sutton , Rosie Barnes , Mary Hammond ,Valerie Collins-Varga , Tom Edmonds , Andreas Simon and Patricia Wright (vocals) and Richard Gill (conducting, score reading, piano). He also attended master classes and workshops by Carlo Felice Cillario and David Porcelijn (conducting), Joshua Hecht , David Kram , Lionel Friend , Elizabeth Campbell and Stuart Skelton (vocals), Necati Çelik (oud) John Mills and Vince Gill (guitar), Isidoro Roitman (Spanish Renaissance music ), Giorgis Xylouris (Laouto), Hopkinson Smith (theorbo) and Polly Sussex (viola da gamba).

Between 1989 and 2015 he was active as a freelance musician. He has appeared as an opera and concert singer in Australia and played various instruments at festivals and concerts of folk, world and jazz music in Australia and Europe. He was also involved in CD recordings by Ross Daly, Tony Garone , Gazi Yalçın , Akhter Jahan and Annika Hooper, among others . As a conductor, he led choirs and orchestras in various schools and music schools and taught there singing and choral singing, composition and conducting, music technology and multimedia art, guitar and various other instruments (including recorder, ukulele, marimba). He has been teaching at Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School since 2016 .

Griffin's compositional work includes drama, ballet and film music, song and choral works, chamber music and orchestral works as well as works for world music ensembles. Some of his works are primarily intended for school use. In addition to a guitar school and smaller works on musical topics, he also wrote several articles in the field of ornithology and herpetology.

Web links

• Homepage of Philip Griffin
• Philip Griffin at Allmusic (English)
• Philip Griffin at Discogs (English)