Currently residing in Tucson, Philip Moody is an active member of the music community.
Mr. Moody is the Artistic Director and Founder of CORO and a doctoral candidate at the
University of Arizona. Most recently, Mr. Moody was the winner of the graduate conducting
competition at the ACDA National Conference held March 11, 2011 in Chicago and participated
in the 2011 Conducting Masterclass with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. Prior to
Tucson he lived in Houston where he sang professionally and taught in the choral department at
Clear Brook High School for three years and spent four years as the Schissler Conducting Fellow
at the Moores School of Music: University of Houston. As the orchestral conducting fellow at the
Moores School of Music he was the Associate Conductor for the Moores Opera Center, both
Assistant Conductor and Manager for the Moores School Orchestras, and Orchestra Manager for
the Texas Music Festival. He has received a Master of Music in orchestral and opera conducting
from the University of Houston. From the University of New Mexico: Albuquerque he received
two Master of Music degrees: one in conducting and one in voice and received his Bachelor of
Music in Sacred Music/Voice from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN.
Mr. Moody is also an active conductor and vocalist. He is routinely asked to participate in clinics for high school and college choral ensembles as well as voice masterclasses. Mr. Moody was a co-founder of the male vocal ensemble Cantus, based in Minneapolis, where he sang with the ensemble and served as the Artistic Director and Business Director; he has also served as Artistic Director of the Rivercross Theater Company in Northfield, MN. In Albuquerque, he served as Music Director of the University of New Mexico Theater Department and conducted at the Albuquerque Little Theater, Saint PaulÕs Lutheran Church, and Saint JohnÕs Episcopal Cathedral. As a soloist, Mr. Moody has sung under such renowned conductors as Robert Shaw, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Spano, John Fiore, Phillipe Jordan, and Ole Kristian Ruud. He has performed with the choruses of Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Arizona Opera and performed several seasons with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Cantare Houston, and the Houston Chamber Choir.