Lance Phillip received his earliest musical training as a chorister at the St Thomas Choir School in New York from 1983-6, under Dr Gerre Hancock. He read Music at the University of Pretoria, and graduated BMus (Composition) in 1995, under Henk Temmingh. In the same year he formed the Ars Nova Consort, a Pretoria-based choir. Phillip is active as a tenor and conductor, and was Assistant Director of Music at Christ Church, Arcadia, under George King, from 1997–2009. He was also a member of Richard Cock’s Chanticleer Singers (2003–9), and directed ENSEMBLE 4BOURDON, an ad hoc vocal ensemble. Phillip studied singing with Lorraine Haveman-du Toit, and orchestral conducting with Walter Mony. He is currently employed at the Odeion School of Music (University of the Free State) as a Lecturer in Composition, Choral Studies & Musicology.
Lance is Director of Music at Bloemfontein Cathedral, where he directs the Cathedral Singers of St Michael & St Andrew, in addition to the University’s departmental academic choral ensemble, the Odeion Choir, and the University of the Free State Choir. In 2013 he sang the role of the Evangelist and the tenor solos in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio under Gerben Grooten, and the tenor solo in Orff’s Carmina burana with the Free State Symphony Orchestra, under Alexander Fokkens. He is a founding member and regular guest singer with the Cape Consort, a leading early music ensemble, as well as a guest conductor & singer with the Baroque2000 orchestra. Lance also holds a Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of the Free State.
This accomplished performer is a tenor for the FSSO Easter Oratorio taking place on Good Friday at the The Anglican Cathedral of St Andrew and St Michael,...
Remember to bring the whole family, the concert is FREE!
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