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Margaret PHILLIPS
Among
Britain's most outstanding concert organists and teachers,
Margaret Phillips made her début at the Royal Festival Hall
and soon gained an international reputation as a soloist,
playing at concert halls and cathedrals throughout Europe and
in the U.S.A., Australia and Mexico. She has appeared
frequently as a continuo player and accompanist with such
ensembles as the BBC Singers and The Sixteen, and her CD
recordings, which include the complete
organ works of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Stanley, have
been widely praised.
Recognizing
her debt to her own teachers, who included Marie-Claire Alain
and the late Ralph Downes, Margaret Phillips now devotes a
substantial part of her time to teaching and other activities
in the organ world. Alongside her busy career as a player, she
is Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music in London
and Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester. For 20 years she was a member of Council of the
Royal College of Organists and from 1997–99 she was
President of the Incorporated Association of Organists.
She
has twice taught at the International Summer Academy in
Haarlem (Netherlands), and has been a jury member for
international organ competitions in Odense (Denmark), Toulouse
(France) and St Albans (UK). Over the past few years she has
given concerts on the famous organs in Riga, Alkmaar, Haarlem
and Weingarten, as well as in many other churches in Germany,
Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and the UK.
In 1994, Margaret Phillips and her husband founded the English
Organ School and Museum in former chapel premises in Milborne
Port, Somerset, where they have a small collection of organs
by English organ builders from the eighteenth century to the
present day. EOS aims to provide facilities for learning and
playing the organ, to promote the understanding and
appreciation of the organ as a musical instrument, and to
preserve a modest part of Britain's organ heritage.
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