Stacey Philipps | Featured Artist

Stacey Philipps writes music to explore human experiences, lean into dissonance, and share vibrations with those on the stage and in the audience. Drawing inspiration from mythology, documentaries, fairy tales, current and historical events, personal narratives, and poetry, along with modal harmonies, folk songs, Renaissance polyphony, hymns, shape note music, and the melodic and rhythmic elements of the world around her, this “…rising star,” is one of “…Portland’s most forward-thinking composers,” who is “…establishing a new normal of what will someday be called early 21st-century classical music.”

An early- and new-music devotée, Philipps is also a multi-instrumentalist and lifelong singer currently in the alto section of the Oregon Repertory Singers, as well as the Composer-in-Residence for the Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir. Recent projects include the adventurous and versatile book of “Gathering Rounds: 52 Original Rounds and Canons for Choirs,” and a forthcoming book of even more rounds for beginning and intermediate singers. Her music for choirs, chamber ensembles, soloists, and orchestras has been performed across North America, and she holds degrees in composition from Portland State University and in philosophy and math from St. John’s College, Santa Fe. Philipps writes music, gardens, and herds cats in Portland, Oregon, where she is the proprietor of Sirensong Publishing, the primary distributor of her work.