Biography
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“Philip Harper is a musician from top to toe, which, in his case, means a lot of musician,” said Alan Jenkins of the six and a half foot conductor and composer in the British Bandsman magazine in 2010.
Philip, a resident of Gloucester, is the Professional Conductor of the Tongwynlais Band in South Wales, the Editor of Brass Band World magazine, and the Music Editor of the famous Wright and Round publishing company. Additionally he works at home and abroad as a freelance conductor, educator and adjudicator, with brass bands of all abilities from non-contesting bands and youth bands to the Black Dyke Band.
Philip is also a prolific composer and his original works and arrangements are played all over the world. In 2010, both Kingdom of Dragons and Willow Pattern were selected for use at the UK National Brass Band Championships. You can find out more detail and listen to audio excerpts at www.philipharper.co.uk.
En route to this point in his life, Philip graduated from the University of Bristol in 1994 before going on to take a Masters Degree in Composition and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. He had a successful performing career and was the principal tenor horn of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain and the Sun Life Band in Bristol, as well as winning through to the Brass Final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1991. Between 1996 and 1998 he lived in Japan and was a guest soloist with most of the ‘British-style’ brass bands during this time, as well as a real object of curiosity to the majority of the (relatively) diminutive population – one of which he married in 1999.
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