"It's hard to imagine more committed performances of

Papandopulo's piano pieces"

(BBC Music Magazine)

Described by The New York Times as an "able and persuasive advocate" of new music, pianist Nicholas Phillips has built a reputation as an artist that exhibits a commanding technique and sensitive, thoughtful interpretations.  Known for his innovative recital programming, engaging lecture-recitals, and advocacy of new music, Phillips appears regularly in solo and chamber music recitals in addition to his teaching duties at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he is currently Assistant Professor of Music.

News/Updates:

• I am pleased to announce that I have begun work on my next CD, Le Tombeau du Piano, with piano music by pianist/composer Giuseppe Lupis.
• I have just returned from giving a program featuring piano music by Boris Papandopulo at the Croatian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• My new CD Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music was featured on the hour-long program "Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner" on 98.7 WFMT (Chicago) on November 21, 2011.  Click here for the audio archive.
• World Premiere of Rain Gardens for solo piano by Kirsten Broberg, commissioned by the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association
• Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music (Albany Records: TROY 1274) was released June 1, 2011.  Selected by Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker on his "nightafternight" playlist
• Recent solo recitals in Korea in July 2011 at Haslla Art World (Gangneung) and Shinhan Art Hall (Seoul)
• World premiere of Figures in Time for solo piano by Seung-Ah Oh in Korea

Below is an audio sampler of some of the works included on Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music (Albany Records: TROY 1274) along with a YouTube clip of the first of the Eight Studies.  This is the first commercial release in the United States devoted to the piano music of this famous Croatian composer.

Reviews for Portals and Passages (Albany Records, TROY 1246) 

Released on January 1, 2011, this CD features works by American composer Ethan Wickman.  To hear samples please visit the Audio section of my site. To read the full New York Times review, click here.

"Mr. Wickman is a composer of facility and imagination, the kind to whom both performers and audiences respond...Mr. Phillips is an able and persuasive advocate throughout"

(Steve Smith, New York Times)

"Throughout, Phillips navigates Wickman's fleet rhythmic and timbral shifts as one who has internalized these scores with a great deal of empathy.  This is an album of both stunning breadth and poise"

(Doyle Armbrust, Time Out Chicago)

"This is a thoroughly appealing collection of piano music from an extremely talented composer...Very enthusiatically recommended"

(Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine)

Reviews for Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music (Albany, TROY 1274)

"The Scherzo fantastico (1932) is a tremendous work, played with bejeweled accuracy by Nicholas Phillips...(in 10X1) ... Phillips's performance is appropriately chameleon...Rewarding Listening."

(Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine)