Saxophonist Scotty Phillips has been heard in performance across the United States, Canada, France, Croatia and Poland. He has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (NY), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NY), Schermerhorn Symphony Center (TN), McCarter Theatre Center (NJ), Center for New Music (CA), Wychwood Barns (ON), Princeton Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series (NJ), Spectrum (NY), ETHOS New Music Series (NY), Performing Arts Series of First Presbyterian Church (IA), Roche Visiting Artist Series (PA), First Tuesday Performance Series (GA), Opening Nights (FL), Ratusz Staromiejski w Szczecinie (Poland), Nowosolski Dom Kultury (Poland), and Wałeckie Centrum Kultury (Poland). He has also appeared as a soloist with the Florida State University Wind Orchestra, Orlando Concert Band, Peacock Wind Ensemble, a guest artist at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, Oklahoma State University, University of South Florida and with the New York City Opera, Tallahassee Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, and the Princeton Festival, and National Music Festival Orchestra.
Dr. Phillips is also an accomplished musician in the popular and jazz styles. He has performed with The Temptations, jazz legends Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Conrad Herwig and composer/arranger Jim McNeely. He was also part of the United States delegation sent to Grenoble, France for International Meetings of Young Musicians, being 1 of 6 American musicians selected for the trip. Phillips has also performed in numerous musicals.
Scotty is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA where he lives happily with his wife. His primary teachers are Patrick Meighan, Jonathan Bergeron, Anita Handelsman, and Tony Vacca.