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Phil A. Thompson
Professor of Music, Ph.D., University of North Texas
Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Studies
225 Conservatory of Music
803 323-4515
thompsonp@winthrop.edu
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Phil Thompson is Professor of saxophone, flute and clarinet at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he also directs the Winthrop University Jazz Ensemble . He is very active both as a woodwind doubler in Charlotte, North Carolina, and as a clinician/adjudicator at schools and festivals throughout the Southeast. He is in demand as a performer and teacher of all instrumental styles — Classic to Jazz, and performs regularly with groups ranging from the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra to artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Bernadette Peters. Thompson is a clinician for the Selmer Company and his most recent recordings as a featured woodwind/jazz soloist include performances on Maddy Winer's The Loving Part of Me (MSW Records), guitarist John Sharp's Better than Dreams (listen to two WAV files from track 5, "Runaway Bay" by following the links below) and vocalist Eileen Farrell's Eileen Farrell Sings Johnny Mercer on the Reference Recordings label of San Francisco.
A graduate of East Carolina University and the University of Michigan, Thompson completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Woodwind Performance at the University of North Texas in 1993. During 1986-87, he played lead alto saxophone in the Two O'Clock Lab Band, directed by James Riggs.
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