I’ve joined the faculty of Butler University! Information for prospective students available here. We have graduate student assistantship funding for MM applicants!

Ogni Suono celebrates ten years together with the premiere of /tele/path by Atlanta-based Singaporean composer Emily Koh alongside a retrospective of the twenty-some works commissioned by the duo from the past decade and Shelley Washington’s BIG Talk. This includes selected works from our 2018 album SaxoVoce (New Focus Recordings) and our 2015 release Invisible Seams.

Check out the schedule here!

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, I have moved all of my lessons to an online format for the time being. As a result, I am able to welcome new students from all over the world to my studio! See the lessons page for more info.

Daniel Schreiner gave SaxoVoce a great review this week at ICareIfYouListen.com. Check it out and buy the album!

“SaxoVoce is a tour de force of new possibilities for saxophone and voice, providing a blueprint for the creation of future saxophone duo repertoire. The album’s featured works contain enough formal and stylistic variety to sustain close listening engagement throughout; furthermore, Even and Pierick’s playing highlights a veritable encyclopedia of sound-production techniques spanning the saxophone/voice spectrum. With SaxoVoce, Ogni Suono insists on the saxophone’s versatility, its expressive power and unique voice—suggesting that the sax does not simply belong within the distinguished pantheon of “classical” instruments, but rather may exist somewhere further beyond.”

Ogni Suono released SaxoVoce on Sept. 7! We have been touring the album since September and are off to China and Taiwan next month for more performances of music from the disc. More info and purchase your copy at New Focus Recordings.

Excited to announce I have been appointed Adjunct Instructor of Saxophone at the College of Wooster!

Audition and degree information can be found here.

Phil was interviewed in the Sept-Oct issue of Saxophone Today by Dave Camwell!

Click to read the article

“Phil Pierick A Rising Star” by David Camwell
© 2014, SeptOct Saxophone Today
Made in USA, Used by permission
http://www.saxophonetoday.com/

Phil took 3rd Prize at the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand in July!

Watch the videos here from the competition.

I have received a US Student Fulbright grant to study in Vienna next academic year (2014-15) with Lars Mlekusch at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität!

It will be nice to take a break from my doctoral studies at Eastman (and Rochester weather…) and head back to Europe for another year. Come visit!

Check out Ogni Suono’s new album, Invisible Seams

Featuring six new works for saxophone duo, never before recorded!