Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as a veteran chamber musician, soloist, violist, and teacher. A graduate of The Juilliard School, his teachers were his father Eugene Phillips, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Sándor Végh and George Neikrug.

He is a founding member of the 31-year-old Orion Quartet, in residence at the Mannes College of Music and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. They have recorded the complete quartets of Beethoven and Leon Kirchner.

Mr. Phillips won the Young Concert Artists auditions and bronze medal in the Leipzig Bach Competition in 1976, and has been an up and coming young soloist ever since. He gave debut recitals at the 92nd street Y and Alice Tully Hall which received great reviews in the New York Times. He has performed as soloist with the Pittsburgh, Houston, Boston and Yakima symphonies and has been a regular performer at the Spoleto Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the International Musicians Seminar in the UK for the last four decades. This summer he will return to the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.

He teaches at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Mannes College of Music, Bard College Conservatory, and The Juilliard School. He lives with his wife, flutist, Tara Helen O’Connor with their two cute mini dachshunds on the upper west side of Manhattan.