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Steven Philcox

Canadian music educator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ16734487 ↗
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Steven Philcox is a Canadian pianist, conductor and professor at the University of Toronto in collaborative piano.

Philcox studied at the University of British Columbia and the Manhattan School of Music. He tours as a recital accompanist and solo performer. Philcox has conducted the Canadian Opera Company and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and was the musical director of the Highlands Opera Studio. He directs the collaborative piano department at the University of Toronto.

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This entry incorporates text from “Steven Philcox” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.