Art Phillips (composer)

Art Phillips (born 1955, Erie, Pennsylvania) is a composer of film, television, and popular music. He has been working in film and television for over 50 years. Education and early career Phillips’s career began in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, where he was a session guitarist, composer, and orchestrator working and recording for popular artists including Barry Manilow, Minnie Riperton, Demis Roussos, The Carpenters, Smokey Robinson, Dory Previn, Burl Ives, and The Lettermen. He did work on television series and feature films before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1987. He was musical director, conductor, and orchestrator on live concert tours for Demis Roussos, Dory Previn, and John Rowles, and toured as guitarist for Barry Manilow for over three years. He produced recordings for Demis Roussos, Barry Manilow, Sally Kellerman, and John Rowles, achieving a Gold Record Award for his production work on the album Another Chapter for Rowles. Phillips’s earlier composition credits include background music for The Love Boat. He wrote the R&B single “Here We Go” for Minnie Riperton, and co-wrote the Motown Records release “Now That I Have You” for artist Teena Marie. He holds a Master of