Photo Credit: Hampton Kennedy Photography
Click here to listen to tracks from my most popular CD appearance, The Invincible Czars' Nutcracker Suite
Click here for Phil Davidson's Suzuki violin teaching studio web page
If you're interested in private violin lessons at one of my South Austin studio locations, please call me at 585-9724.
I play all styles of violin for all sorts of occasions - from classical music for weddings and special occasions (Guitar and Violin, String Quartets, Trios, Duets, Solo Violin) to recording sessions to performances with bands. Call me at (512) 585-9724.
I played over 100 performances last year, mostly with classical ensembles at weddings and private parties, or in rock clubs late at night.
My MySpace page usually has the current run-down.
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Bio (from the Armstrong Community Music School of Austin Lyric Opera website.) |
Phil Davidson is an active violin teacher and performer in Austin, TX. He received his B.A. in Music from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a Suzuki specialist, with teacher training registered through book 4. He maintains Suzuki violin and viola teaching studios at his home in South Austin and at the Armstrong Community Music School of the Austin Lyric Opera. Phil's teaching emphasizes development of functional instrumental abilities, including playing by ear, good practice habits, critical thinking, theory, history, observation and listening to a wide variety of music. He particularly enjoys teaching young beginners. Lately most of his new students have been adult beginners or kids ages 4-8.
Beyond his primary focus of being a professional music educator, Phil performs over 100 times a year in the Austin area. A former member of the Des Moines Symphony and Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra, he also was concertmaster of the Drake Symphony Orchestra. Since moving to Austin in 2002, Phil has decided to focus on chamber music of all sorts. Phil plays everything from Dowland to Piazzolla with classical guitarist Sean Behrens in the Chanterelle Duo, performs the rock-and-roll Nutcracker and more with the Invincible Czars, is in the rock band Mostly Dead and the bluegrass band The Old Holdouts. Phil's interests include supporting local businesses and musicians, vegetarianism, and progressive politics.
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Phil Davidson's current projects/groups:
Invincible Czars (rock arrangements of smart music) Mostly Dead (alternative - "like Muse on Broadway") The Old Holdouts ("Original Austin Amerigrass") Chanterelle Duo (classical guitar and violin) Quartetto Lirico (classical string quartets and trios) Other Austin bands Phil has sat in with: Sea Legs Boxcar Preachers Bourland Golden Arm Trio Surfing Standing Still Phil's former projects/ensembles: Muppletone (progressive world jazz metal) Barrelhouse Dogs (acoustic Texas country) Lucretia Strings (classical string quartets and trios) Nathan James Des Moines Symphony Des Moines Metro Opera Austin, TX bands that Phil supports: Graham Reynolds Golden Hornet Project Bee vs. Moth Opposite Day Sam Arnold Muchos Backflips! Blackholicus The Jazzus Lizard Churchwood Lick Lick Benko Attic Ted Oh, Beast! Tia Carrera Migas Pong The Black Irish Explosions in the Sky My Education Atash Oliver Rajamani Groovin' Ground South Austin Jug Band Erik Hokkanen Warren Hood Michael Fracasso Concentric Click here for Phil Davidson's Suzuki violin teaching studio web page If you're interested in private violin lessons at one of my South Austin studio locations, please call me at 585-9724. 
Photo Credit: Dave Erichson
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