♫ Hello! I'm Phil, and it's nice to meet you! ♫

I’m a musician who lives in New York City. I love what I do, and I perform and teach music around the world. I play piano, oboe, english horn, compose original music, and direct ensembles.

As an oboe player, I toured with Josh Groban for the release of his album Stages, and I performed at the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards with Paul Shaffer, Joe Torre, and Martha Stewart. For several years, I played in the Downtown Sinfonietta chamber orchestra with members from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

I am also featured in the Amazon television series Mozart in the Jungle and Netflix original movie Maestro starring Bradley Cooper. For Maestro, it was a lot of fun filming in Carnegie Hall to recreate the debut concert of Leonard Bernstein with The New York Philharmonic. I even got to wear an original suit from the 1940’s!

I conduct the Wind Ensemble at the Special Music High School, a New York City public school for musically prodigious students. I was the music director of the opera company Opera Upper West, and I led productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Poulenc’s La voix humaine, Menotti’s The Telephone, and Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied.

My musical training includes a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Music from Mannes College The New School for Music. I have taught at The Horace Mann School, Mannes Preparatory at The New School, Kinhaven Music School, The Kaufman Music Center, and Manhattan School of Music Summer.

Below are some of my performance videos.