PHILLIP HARRIS
Phillip has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
He has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera (chorus), Aspen Opera Center, Aspen Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Reno Chamber Orchestra, Opera Las Vegas, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra, Pocket Opera, Mountain Play, Island City Opera, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.
Having sung over twenty roles in opera, operetta, and musical theater, favorite roles include King Arthur (Camelot), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Marius (Les Misérables), Cinderella's Prince (Into the Woods) Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), and Marcello and Schaunard (La Bohème). Other notable roles include Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Mr. Dashwood (Little Women), Sem (Noye's Fludde), The Learned Judge (Trial by Jury), The Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance), and Fauteuil/Arbe (L'enfant Sortèliges).
As a concert artist, he's sung the baritone solo in Duruflé's Requiem, the bass solos in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and Messiah, and has given recitals at University of California, Irvine, Alabama State University, and Los Medanos College. His performance of Jacqueline Hairston's Songs of Concealment with Pocket Opera's PocketWatch was nominated by San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards for Best Vocal Solo/Recital Performance. He recently performed Deon Nielson Price's song cycle, Gallery at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco.
He has an album, Phillip Harris in Recital ,with Damien Sneed that features art songs, arias, spirituals, gospel, and musical theater repertoire, an EP of original music, In My Philz, and is featured on "Gallery" from Deon Nielson Prices' Concert from Presidio Chapel. In the summer, he looks forward to returning to Carnegie Hall to sing in the chorus of Illuminare with Mid America Productions.