PHILLIP GOLUB
Phillip Golub is a composer and pianist based in New York. His music strides the boundary between the improvised and the notated. His musical practice centers around rethinking the rehearsal process as a site of musical sociality and collective creation. He is also an advocate for independent music artists’ labor rights as a member and organizer for Music Workers Alliance.
Phillip is the co-founder of Tropos, a quintet of improvisers and composers whose debut album Axioms//75ab was released in 2020 by Biophilia Records. He is also a member of Layale Chaker’s Sarafand Ensemble, whose Inner Rhyme was released in 2019 by In A Circle Records. Phillip was the musical dramaturg and music coordinator for …(Iphigenia), a new opera born out of a collaboration by Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding.
He performs in a variety of contexts with recent performances at Milton Court Concert Hall (London), the Brighton Fringe Festival, The Stone and National Sawdust (NYC). He also has performed numerous times with the Cecil McBee Quartet. His compositions have been performed at venues such as Merkin Hall (NYC), The Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA), and on festivals such as Tribeca New Music (NYC), Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, and the Hear Now Music Festival (Los Angeles).
He has studied composition with Michael Finnissy and Julian Anderson and piano and improvisation with Jason Moran, Bruce Brubaker, Joe Morris, and Ran Blake. He holds degrees from Harvard University (B.A. English), The Guildhall School of Music & Drama (M.Mus. Composition), and The New England Conservatory (M.M. Jazz Performance).
