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Brad Phillips
Bio
Brad Phillips is a dynamic multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and arranger whose solo performances blend emotional depth with virtuosic versatility. Equally at home on violin, mandolin, guitar, and octave mandolin, Brad’s music draws from Americana, folk, classical, and contemporary roots traditions. Audiences may know him from Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes, where his expressive playing and harmonies earned rave reviews in venues from Carnegie Hall to international festivals.
Brad has performed with legends including Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ariana DeBose, Pat Metheny, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, The Verve Pipe, May Erlewine, Jeff Daniels, Chris DuPont and Joshua Davis. A frequent collaborator and session player, he’s also a respected educator at the University of Michigan and a resident artist at Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theatre Company.
His solo shows are intimate, musically rich experiences—balancing original compositions, reimagined classics, and masterful storytelling through strings and song.
Press
"...Brad Phillips, the musical Lord High Everything Else, surrounded by his range of stringed instruments: guitars, concert and bass ukuleles, mandolin, and violin, all of which he plays superbly, as well as also adding vocals."- BroadwayWorld Adelaide
"...accompanied by stellar string instrumentalist (guitar, violin, mandolin, etc.) Brad Phillips."
- BroadwayWorld Washington, D.C.
"The accomplished Joseph Thalken…ably supported by the talented multi‑instrumentalist Brad Phillips. They allow LuPone’s voice to shine, but are brilliant musicians in their own right – the combination of piano and either a violin or one of many guitars are a perfect accompaniment.”
- Stage Whispers
“Phillips is a real find, and LuPone and Thalken let him step into the spotlight…Phillips went to town with some spirited fiddle playing…”
- Caberet Scenes
"He’s got chops up the wazoo. On violin, mandolin, and guitar he’s got the tone, the speed, and the improvisatory creativity…And, perhaps above all, he knows how to be a sideman…but also not hide his light under a bushel basket when it’s his turn to solo.”
- Ann Arbor Observer
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