Phillip
Collister,
associate professor voice & music for the stage &
assistant chairperson, earned a DMA in Voice & Opera from
University of Maryland College Park in 1996, Masters of Music and
Performance Certificate in Voice & Opera from Northwestern in 1986
& 1987 and Bachelor of Arts in Music/Theatre from Marycrest College
in 1985. Dr. Collister has performed extensively as a soloist in opera,
oratorio, and recital. He has performed with the Washington Bach
Consort, The Washington Bach Sinfonia, The Handel Choir of Baltimore,
the Maryland Handel Festival, The Bach Concert Series, The Baltimore
Opera, and internationally at the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany and
the Tarmstedt Kulture Forum. He is the Music Director of Young
Victorian Theatre Company in Baltimore dedicated to producing
professional productions of operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He
has also served as conductor for Baltimore Concert Opera and as music
director and conductor at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Opera
Studio (Fairbanks, AK.) He maintains an active solo concert
schedule which has included performances at Carnegie Hall, St. Peter's
Concert Series (NYC), a recital tour of American Art Song in both the
United States and Germany, a New England recital tour, performances of
original cabarets at Germano’s Tratoria, Roland Park Summer Chamber
Music Series, and numerous recitals at Towson University. He is
the producer and director of Towson's Music
for the Stage which produces operas, musicals and workshop programs
each semester. In 2010, Collister formed the resident children’s
opera company Opera in a Can devoted to fostering a love of opera in
young children grades K-6 in public and private schools in the
Baltimore region. Dr. Collister also teaches private voice, vocal
pedagogy, vocal literature survey. At Towson, Collister has been
responsible for producing, coordinating and helping to fund several
festivals and special international events including the Kurt Weill
Festival (2010), Opera Week (2011), and as Producing Artistic Director
of the Maryland Arts Festival (2001-2006). Many of these events
received substantial grant funding from state, local, and private
foundations including the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, The Maryland
State Arts Council and the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and
Sciences.
His opera and musical theatre directing and/or conducting credits include (operas) Le
Nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosi fan tutte, The Impressario, The
Medium, Mahagonny Songspiel, The Threepenny Opera, Pirates of Penzance,
Iolanthe, Yeomen of the Guard, Riders to the Sea, The Wandering
Scholar, The Old Maid and the Thief, and The
Face on the Barroom Floor, The Stoned Guest, A Game of Chance, Captain
Lovelock, The Beautiful Bridegroom, The Telephone, The Goose of Cairo, and (musicals)
Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Ragtime, Gypsy, Cabaret, Chicago,
Forever Plaid, Godspell, Joseph...Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors,
How to Succeed in Business, Hair and many others. From 1995-1998
he was the head of choral activities and opera at UMBC, and during
1999-2000 he was the Music Director of the University of Maryland
Chorale. Dr. Collister joined the music faculty of Towson University in
August 1998. He is currently a member of the professional
performing ensemble Trio Montage
dedicated to expanding the vocal repertoire for voice, clarinet and
piano. He is a member of quinTUs, the faculty vocal quintet at
Towson University and also serves as Music Director of the Roland Park
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD.
Phillip
Collister,
associate professor voice & music for the stage &
assistant chairperson, earned a DMA in Voice & Opera from
University of Maryland College Park in 1996, Masters of Music and
Performance Certificate in Voice & Opera from Northwestern in 1986
& 1987 and Bachelor of Arts in Music/Theatre from Marycrest College
in 1985. Dr. Collister has performed extensively as a soloist in opera,
oratorio, and recital. He has performed with the Washington Bach
Consort, The Washington Bach Sinfonia, The Handel Choir of Baltimore,
the Maryland Handel Festival, The Bach Concert Series, The Baltimore
Opera, and internationally at the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany and
the Tarmstedt Kulture Forum. He is the Music Director of Young
Victorian Theatre Company in Baltimore dedicated to producing
professional productions of operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He
has also served as conductor for Baltimore Concert Opera and as music
director and conductor at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Opera
Studio (Fairbanks, AK.) He maintains an active solo concert
schedule which has included performances at Carnegie Hall, St. Peter's
Concert Series (NYC), a recital tour of American Art Song in both the
United States and Germany, a New England recital tour, performances of
original cabarets at Germano’s Tratoria, Roland Park Summer Chamber
Music Series, and numerous recitals at Towson University. He is
the producer and director of Towson's Music
for the Stage which produces operas, musicals and workshop programs
each semester. In 2010, Collister formed the resident children’s
opera company Opera in a Can devoted to fostering a love of opera in
young children grades K-6 in public and private schools in the
Baltimore region. Dr. Collister also teaches private voice, vocal
pedagogy, vocal literature survey. At Towson, Collister has been
responsible for producing, coordinating and helping to fund several
festivals and special international events including the Kurt Weill
Festival (2010), Opera Week (2011), and as Producing Artistic Director
of the Maryland Arts Festival (2001-2006). Many of these events
received substantial grant funding from state, local, and private
foundations including the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, The Maryland
State Arts Council and the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and
Sciences.