Phillip Golub

Composer Phillip Golub makes music that straddles the boundary between notated and improvised. Trained in both classical composition and jazz, he draws on both traditions in his avant-garde works. Early notice came in 2013 when the National Children's Chorus performed his song cycle Weathered and Revealed at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The following year, the New York Virtuoso Singers performed his choral work God's List of Liquids, set to a text by Anne Carson, at Merkin Hall in Manhattan. Golub performed with the Sarafand Ensemble and, in 2020, formed his own group, Tropos, which released the album Axioms // 75ab that year. In 2022, he released his debut solo album, Filters, with himself as pianist. He returned with the more jazz-oriented Abiding Memory in 2024.