Photo Credit: Bob Weinschenk
I play all styles of violin
Classical music for weddings and special occasions-
Guitar and Violin
String Quartets, Trios, Duets, Solo Violin
Recording sessions
Performances with bands
Click here for my 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 512-585-9724.
Click here to listen to tracks from my most popular CD appearance, The Invincible Czars' Nutcracker Suite
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Bio (It's in third person because that's how I wrote it for 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 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 politics.
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My current projects/groups:
Invincible Czars (rock arrangements of smart music) The Old Holdouts ("Original Austin Amerigrass") Mostly Dead (alternative - "like Muse on Broadway") Muppletone (progressive world jazz metal) Chanterelle Duo (classical guitar and violin) Quartetto Lirico (classical string quartets and trios) Other Austin bands with whom I have recorded or performed: Digital Antique (Instrumental post-rock with a full string quartet) Golden Hornet Project Golden Arm Trio Opposite Day A Life Like No Other Polydactyl Hemingway Louis Landry Sam Arnold Sea Legs Boxcar Preachers Bourland Surfing Standing Still My former projects/ensembles: Barrelhouse Dogs (acoustic Texas country) Lucretia Strings (classical string quartets and trios) Nathan James Des Moines Symphony Des Moines Metro Opera |