Harvey Phillips
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington

Harvey Phillips has performed as tuba soloist throughout the world. His music
career began as a teenager with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Band. From 1950-71 he maintained an enviable freelance career in New York
City, performing, recording and broadcasting with famous artists, conductors,
bands and orchestras. In 1954, he was a founding member of the New York Brass
Quintet. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold
Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and Gunther Schuller. He was New England Conservatory Vice
President for Financial Affairs (1967-71). In 1971, he was appointed to the
Indiana University faculty. For ten years (1986-96) he served as Executive
Editor of The Instrumentalist magazine.

He has structured and hosted many international conferences and festivals in
the United States, Europe and Japan. He was judge for the CIEM First
International Solo Tuba Competition (1991), Geneva, Switzerland.
His honors include: Principal Tuba, Circus Hall of Fame Band (selected by
Merle Evans); Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1979);
Association of Concert Bands "first" Mentor Ideal Award (1994); Sousa Foundation
Sudler Medal of the Order of Merit award (1995); National Band Association
Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts Award (1995); United Musical Instruments
Lifetime Achievement Award (1996); American Bandmasters Association Edwin Franco
Goldman Award (1996); Rafael Mendez Brass Institute Lifetime Achievement Award
(1997); Colonial Euphonium-Tuba Institute Development of Musical Artistry &
Opportunities Award (1997); Phi Mu Alpha Orpheus Award (1997); and others. Harvey
Phillips Day has been celebrated by the New England conservatory (1971) and by
his home town Bi-Centennial Celebration, Marionville, Missouri (1976). In 1985
the Governor of Missouri declared a Harvey Phillips Weekend. He holds
Honorary Doctor of Music (1971) New England Conservatory, and Honorary Doctor of
Humanities (1987) University of Missouri.

He is founder and president of the Harvey Phillips Foundation, Inc. which
administers OCTUBAFEST, TUBACHRISTMAS, TUBASANTAS, TUBACOMPANY, TUBAJAZZ, etc. In
May 1994 he retired from Indiana University with the title of Distinguished
Professor Emeritus. He continues to serve as a consultant in the arts and to
brass instrument manufacturers. He maintains a busy international schedule of
concerts, lectures, and clinics. He resides with his wife Carol at TUBARANCH in
Bloomington, Indiana.