Anthony E. Philpott is a multifaceted musician whose work encompasses performance, composition, research, and performing arts administration.
As a baritone soloist, he has performed in opera, musical theater, oratorio, and in concert. As a chorister, he has performed with numerous ensembles, including five seasons with the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro (NC).
His growing body of compositions include vocal, choral, chamber, and orchestral works. His setting of Claude McKay’s “America” was among the 2021 winners of the Art Song and Vocal Chamber Music Call for Scores by Calliope's Call.
His research focuses on topics surrounding pioneering Black classical musicians—their lives, careers, contributions, and compositions. To that end, he has presented at New York’s Town Hall, and the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, formerly the historic Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, NC. Forthcoming is his book, “A Hall for All: Black Classical Musicians at the Town Hall,” which traces the rise to prominence of Black classical musicians, as revealed through their performances at this historic New York venue. He has also contributed to projects such as the 2022 PBS American Masters documentary, "Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands," and the 2023 Parnassus Records reissue of the 1950’s Schubert lieder recordings of pioneering Black mezzo-soprano, Inez Matthews.
For over a decade, he has been affiliated with the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. helping to promote and preserve the music created and performed by Black musicians. He is past President and current Vice President of the Carol Brice Music Association of North Carolina (a branch of NANM, Inc.), and current Vice President of the Executive Board of the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra.
He is a Vocal Performance graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Non-Profit Administration from Louisiana State University-Shreveport.
African American; Black; Baritone; Opera; Art Song; Composer; Negro Spiritual; Sacred; Religious; Secular; Jazz; Musical Theater Theatre; Concert; Recital; Producer; Administrator; Choir; Virgin Islands; St. Thomas; St. Croix; St. John; St. Kitts; Nevis; Choral; Music; Arts Administration; Arranger; Leontyne Price; William Garfield; Elvira Green; George Shirley; Carol Brice; Eugene Brice; Jonathan Brice; Camilla Williams; Sylvia Olden Lee; Everett Lee; Dean Dixon; Leonard de Paur; Lawrence Winters Whisonant; Adele Addison; Kathleen Battle; Jessie Norman; Town Hall; Metropolitan Opera; Carnegie Hall; Armenta Adams; Martina Arroyo; Robert McFerrin; NANM; CBMA; William Grant Still; Margaret Bonds; Florence Price; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; George Walker; Frances Walker; Betty Jackson King; Frederick Hall; Scott Joplin; Julius Eastman; Winton Marsalis; Adolphus Hailstorm; Leslie Adams; Julia Perry; Kermit Moore; Undine Smith Moore; Dorothy Rudd Moore; Robert Nathaniel Dett; Zenobia Powell Perry; Marian Anderson; Paul Robeson; Roland Hayes; Dorothy Maynor; Charlotte Wesley Holloman; John Rosamond Johnson; Taylor Gordon; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson; William Levi Dawson; Thomas Jefferson TJ Anderson; Ulysses Kay; Henry Lewis; Grace Bumbry; Shirley Verrett; James DePriest; James Frazier; Paul Freeman; soprano; tenor; baritone; bass; bass-baritone; mezzo-soprano; mezzo-soprano; Isaiah Jackson; Calvin Simmons; Anne Lundy; Leslie Dunner; Michael Morgan; David Baker; Hale Smith; Thomas Carey; Julius Jules Bledsoe; McHenry Boatwright; Aubrey Pankey; Steven Cole; Todd Duncan; Anne Brown; Simon Estes; Veronica Tyler; Inez Matthews; Edward Matthews; Andrew Frierson; Robert Mosley; Derek Lee Ragin; countertenor; Kenneth Spencer; Ellabelle Davis; Betty Allen; Roberta Alexander; Harolyn Blackwell; Joyce Bryant; Barbara Smith Conrad; Clamma Dale; Billie Lynn Daniel; Mattiwilda Dobbs; Mary Cardwell Dawson; Gloria Davy; Lucretia West; Ruby Elzy; Lillian Evanti; Zelma George; Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield; Reri Grist; Barbara Hendricks; Cynthia Haymon; Caterina Jarboro; Isola Jones; Florence Quivar; Sissieretta Jones; Hyer Sisters; Gwendolyn Killebrew; Felicia Weathers; Florence Cole Talbert; Harry Thacker HT Burleigh; Florence Cole Talbert; Daisy Tapley; Muriel Smith; Muriel Rahn; Luther Saxon; Luther King; Coretta Scott King; Orchestra; Symphony; Philharmonic; Evans Gibbs; Blind Tom; Thomas Wiggins; Marie Selika Williams; Helen Phillips, La Julia Rhea; Faye Robinson; Alpha Brawner Floyd; Etta Moten Barnett; Marvin Martin; Abbie Mitchell; Leona Mitchell; Vera Little; Hall Johnson; Edward Boatner; Eva Jessie; Clarence Cameron White; Moses Hogan; John Wesley Work; Jester Hairston; Ella Sheppard; Fisk Jubilee Singers; Wendell Whalum; Andre Watts; Don Donald Shirley; Hazel Scott; Philippa Schuyler; Helen Hagan; Roy Eaton; Natalie Hinderas; Leon Bates; Matthew Kennedy; Thomasina Talley; Frances Cole; piano; organ; harpsichord; voice; flute; clarinet; saxophone; keyboard; oboe; bassoon; winds; woodwind; brass; trumpet; horn; trombone; tuba; cornet; harp; marimba; xylophone; University of the Virgin Islands; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Researcher; Archivist; Presenter; Lecturer.
