Phillip Sink
Phillip Sink currently serves as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Music Composition at University of Missouri where he teaches Introduction to Electronic Music, Digital Synthesis, Composition, and Composition Seminar. As a post-doc, he plans to compose collaborative multimedia works for musicians, electronics, and video.
He is the recipient of many awards including the Hermitage Prize given by the 2015 Aspen Music Festival; the Best Music Submission Award at the 2015 International Computer Music Festival; three Indiana University Dean’s Prizes for best orchestra, chamber, and electronic music; Ensemble 212 Call for Scores; Innovox Ensemble Call for Scores; Boston New Music Initiative Call for Scores, Kuttner String Quartet Composition Competition; and NOTUS Prize for Choral Composition. His electroacoustic music has been selected for presentation at conferences such as the International Computer Music Conference; SEAMUS; Arts and Science Days in Bourges, France; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; National Student Electroacoustic Music Event; and the Electroacoustic Barn Dance.
Phillip received bachelor’s degrees in music composition/theory and music education from Appalachian State University and master’s degrees in music composition and music theory pedagogy from Michigan State University where he served as a graduate assistant in music theory. Phillip was a doctoral fellow at the Jacobs School of Music where he earned a doctoral degree (DM) in music composition with minors in electronic music and music theory. At Indiana University, he served as an associate instructor of composition where he taught courses such as Free Counterpoint, Notation, and Composition for Non-Majors. He studied electronic music with Jeffrey Hass and John Gibson and acoustic composition with Don Freund, Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Aaron Travers, Sven-David Sandström, Ricardo Lorenz, Jere Hutcheson, and Scott Meister.
Composed for Circling the Waves (2017)
Michiko Theurer, violin