Jamie Phillips

Conductor Jamie Phillips became the youngest-ever assistant conductor at the durable Hallé Orchestra when he was 21. He has since guest-conducted a long list of major European orchestras. Phillips was born on July 12, 1991, in Cheshire, England. He came from a family that had been musical for several generations; his grandfather was a longtime local church organist, his mother was an oboist who played with the Liverpool Philharmonic and headed the woodwind department at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and his father was a French horn player with the City of Birmingham Symphony ...