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Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and lectures in ethnomusicology and cultural studies at Medgar Evers College.

Moses Bernard Phillips is a lecturer in ethnomusicology, music theory and critical theory at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, since 1998. He was Director of Music at the Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. from 1999 through 2004 and before that appointment he was principal flute of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for fourteen seasons. He has taught advanced flute studies at the Harlem School since 1995. He played solo flute in the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” and substituted in many other long running shows including a theatrical collaboration with Rudy Dee in her one woman show My One Good Nerve directed by Charles Nelson Reilly. A music critic for New Jersey’s Star Ledger wrote, “Phillips possessed this vivacity, along with brilliant tone and flawless technique”. His text “African American “Classical’ Musicians: Exceeding Boundaries” is in consideration for publication.