Phil Weaver

Bio

Classical guitarist Phil Weaver has been performing for over 25 years, in the United States and abroad. He was the first guitarist to be awarded an individual artist's fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He performed his European debut with solo concerts for the Nonsuch Guitar Society in London and the Old Malthouse Music Society in Sawbridgeworth. His collaborations with pianist Ingrid von Spakovsky include a CD on ACA Digital that received rave reviews in Fanfare and 20th Century Guitar magazines, interviews on BBC York and Temple Public Radio, a tour of England, a New York City recital debut, and performances throughout the U.S. incuding the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Hofstra University's prestigious International Concert Series.

With the goal of making classical music accessible to an ever-widening audience, Phil has created a series of acoustic, cabaret-style concerts in collaboration with a variety of artists from dancers to visual artists to fellow musicians steeped in different musical genres. These concerts pack the house at Huntsville’s Flying Monkey Arts Center. The Alabama Film Co-op produced a DVD of one of these concerts, a classical/blues cabaret performed with critically acclaimed blues guitarist Microwave Dave Gallaher.

Phil Weaver is the founder and artistic director of the City Lights and Stars Series for Burritt Museum in Huntsville, an extremely popular outdoor concert series that presents nationally and regionally renown artists. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he directs the guitar program.