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| Name | Stephanie Phillips |
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Canyon Lake, Texas , United States |
| Email | stephanie4tx73@gmail.com |
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| Info | Stephanie Phillips was born in Nebraska and moved to Texas in third grade from Wisconsin. Her father's first parish had been in the Panhandle town of Friona and when the opportunity came to become the pastor of a small UCC Church in Lockhart he began telling his girls epic sagas of the wonders of Texas to prepare for the big move. Despite early encounters with masses of spiders, stepping in a fire ant mound, and the Chisolm Trail Rodeo “incident,” she survived fourth grade and fell deeply and forever in love with rural Texas rugged beauty and generous people.
She later graduated McCallum HS in Austin, completed a BA in American History at Oberlin College, and a Masters of Music at Texas State. Stephanie is a professional violist and violinist and performs regularly with many of Texas regional symphonies including San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Victoria. An eclectic musician, she has recorded with Texas State’s own Salsa Del Rio and country legend Michael Martin Murphy. Outside of playing in many of the great concert halls of Texas, she has also performed at Willie Nelson’s July fourth in Luckenbach (backing up Ray Price and Willie Nelson) and seven stories below Kendall county in the concert series held in the beautiful “Cave Without a Name.”
Stephanie currently is in demand as a workshop facilitator and trains musicians in creativity and improvisation. She teaches students of all ages at schools, camps and universities in the U.S and Canada. This past summer she worked with over four hundred Texas orchestra students at seven different camps and fine arts programs. Locally she works in Title one schools (highest poverty) coaching chamber music and teaching music technique and performance. She has seen firsthand the ways in which Arts programs and other extra-curricular activities serve as a social safety net and an extended family to students who may face hardship or instability at home. She has had conversations with hundreds of students and scores of teachers about innovative ways to help students increase self-efficacy and personal agency and develop a deeper engagement in their schools and communities.
She lives in the beautiful hills of northern Comal county with her life partner Kathy Weiner and their three dogs and five cats, all rescue animals that started as fosters and became family.
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