Jeff Phillips - trombone

Jeff Phillips is the Band and Orchestra Director at Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where he conducts the Symphonic Band and the String Orchestra in addition to the Marching Band and Jazz Ensemble. Phillips taught at Hendersonville for 16 years (1986-2002) and then taught at Pope John Paul II High School for 5 years, where he designed and implemented all instrumental music classes and programs in the school. Beginning his 22nd year teaching, he returns this Fall to Hendersonville High School. He also taught the trombone studio at Western Kentucky University for four years and currently is in his 3rd year on the Applied Music Faculty at Belmont University in Nashville where he teaches the trombone studio and performs with the Belmont Faculty Brass Quintet. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Western Kentucky University, and Austin Peay State University and has earned the Education Specialist degree in Curriculum Development.

As a performer, he remains active as a freelance trombonist in the Nashville area performing with groups such as the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nashville Wind Ensemble, and on the General Jackson. In addition to various recitals and clinics, he has also been featured with the Belmont Wind Ensemble and Belmont Jazz Ensemble.

Phillips has conducted clinics throughout Tennessee and Kentucky for students in middle school through college and is active as an adjudicator for music groups of all genres throughout the Southeast. He has also published a variety of articles in the Bandworld, School Band and Orchestra and Tennessee Musician magazines and was a co-author of the MENC’s Strategies for Teaching series and writes new music reviews for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors’ Journal. He has served as President of the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, and the Tennessee Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education, and is currently state chair of the American School Band Directors Association and the National Catholic Band Association. Phillips served two years as the TMEA State Band Chair and is currently the President Elect for the American School Band Directors Association (serving two years as National Treasurer). He also served as a member to the ASBDA’s national Executive Board as a member-at-large and has served on various committees within that organization. Phillips also holds membership in a variety of music education associations including: the American String Teachers Association, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 257), and Phi Beta Mu, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors and the College Music Society.

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