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ABOUT
PHIL
Playing the drums and piano since age 3, guitar since age 7, singing
since age 8, studying and practicing for years and years and years,
both in private lessons, master classes, college, and university,
Phil found himself performing / teaching across Canada and the
United States. Phil has taught song writing and recording master
classes and workshops at Humber College, York University, the
University of Toronto, and in various professional recording studios
in Toronto. He has been the head of music for a high school in North
Bay, Ontario, and is currently teaching privately in West Nipissing
at his studio, The Phil Morris S-cool of Music, where they really do
'put the "cool" in school', marrying real world experience with time
tested teaching methods.
Phil has performed numerous shows / concerts for the Government of
Canada, including - but not limited to - on Parliament Hill, in
Ottawa, during the Winterlude Festival (featured on the National CBC
news and Much Music rapid fax), representing Canada in Chicago at
the Tall Ships Festival in front of eighty thousand people, and at
the Residence of the Consul General (J. Christopher Poole) in
Chicago, and performing at the opening of the National Art Gallery
in Ottawa. When Toronto made its bid to host the Olympics, Phil was
hired to perform a unique improvisational drum concert on a moveable
drum sculpture called the Subtonic Cycle, where all the drums are
made from recycled materials. When George Lucas premiered his movie,
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, in downtown Toronto, Phil
was hired to perform outside as tons of people were entering the
theatre. Phil has performed or taught clinics and workshops at
places such as the Science Centre, the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario),
The ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Skydome, Metropolitan Convention
Centre, Harbour Front, The Poor Alex Theatre, The Hummingbird Centre
For The Performing Arts, not to mention in numerous theatres, clubs,
and churches across Canada and the United States. He performed his
own music on CTV television on a television show called ENCOUNTERS
four times, and they aired it twenty two times in syndication.
Phil is a published songwriter and has written music for a host of
applications, such as television, radio, multimedia, award shows, a
mini theatrical production of Jonah and the Whale (with Martin
Spencer of The Stratford Festival), ballet and modern dance troupe's
shows, cross Canada tours for Roland Canada, and for various singers
and bands.
In addition to a busy teaching schedule, Phil is an
arranger/orchestrator/ music producer that develops artists and then
records cds for them. He has worked as a vocal coach and arranger
for Blessed (juno award winner best male vocalist urban artist) and
in various projects with juno award winning producer/engineer, Paul
Milner. He also continues to work on a career as a
singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and daily works towards one
day having songs in regular rotation on radio. He is the host of a
small radio show on JOCO RADIO 99.3 fm (
www.joco.ca )
called "Musical Moments with Phil Morris", and also does voice over
work for radio commercials.
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