Margaret Phillips

Margaret Phillips is most beneficial known on her behalf performances and recordings from the body organ functions of J.S. Bach. She’s also played very much additional Baroque music, including functions by Monteverdi, Buxtehude, as well as the little-known British composer John Stanley. Phillips’ repertory stretches well beyond Baroque-era fare though, consuming functions by Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, John Stainer, and Frank Martin. Phillips in addition has performed harpsichord continuo in such organizations as the London Mozart Players and offers served as body organ accompanist for the BBC Performers as well as the Sixteen. She’s made an appearance as an body organ soloist and recitalist throughout Britain, European countries, Australia, the U.S., and Mexico, and made an appearance on BBC and Western radio broadcasts. Phillips in addition has held several esteemed teaching content, including on the Royal University of Music in London, and she frequently conducts professional classes both in Britain and across European countries. Phillips has produced well over twelve recordings, pass on over several brands including Regent, CRC, Chandos, Coro, Hyperion, and York Ambisonic. Margaret Phillips was created in Exeter, Devon, Britain, on November 16, 1950. From 1968-1972 she examined on the Royal University of Music in London with Ralph Downes, and from 1972-1973 she took body organ lessons privately from Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1972, when she gave her public debut at London’s Royal Celebration Hall, Phillips progressively built her profession, freelancing being a soloist and dealing with the London Mozart Players and various other (mainly vocal) ensembles. From 1976-1985 she offered as music movie director at London’s St. Lawrence Jewry following Guildhall. Other essential posts implemented: she was body organ professor on the London University of Music from 1985-1991, and since 1996 continues to be body organ professor on the Royal University of Music. She also co-founded the British Organ College and Museum at Milbourne Interface, Somerset, Britain, in 1994. Through the entire latter decades from the 20th hundred years, Phillips remained active as an body organ soloist, aswell, carrying a reasonably heavy timetable of concerts in the home and overseas. Her initial major documenting, a Compact disc of body organ music by Saint-Saëns, was released in 1990 over the York Ambisonic label. Her initial J.S. Bach documenting, The Teen Bach, was released to vital acclaim by Regent in 2001. Phillips released some J.S. Bach body organ functions for the same label in 2007. Four amounts were obtainable by 2010, the series including such functions as the Orgelbüchlein (BWV 599-644), Schübler Chorales, and different chorale preludes, partitas, and various other works.