Philip Collins
Trumpet

Phil Collins played principal trumpet with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras for over thirty years, recording more than one hundred CDs. Prior to joining the CSO, he was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Eastman Brass Quintet. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Collins is currently on the faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He has published music for trumpets including In The Singing Style, a collection of excerpts from varied repertoire. He and his wife Sandra, a violinist, live in Montgomery, Ohio. They have six children and four grandchildren.

Mr. Collins has recently been active as a composer of etude books for trumpet.� His two recently published books, TRUMPET I: A study in the styles of the pops orchestra and 100 TRUMPETUDES are available at http://www.bryancrisp.com/phil.html.

In addition to teaching and composition, Mr. Collins maintains an educational trumpet blog that is an extremely valuable resource for any trumpet player: http://philstudents.blogspot.com.

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