Brent Phillips has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Trombone at Baylor University beginning in the fall of 2004. Currently Mr. Phillips is a member of "The President's Own" US Marine Band in Washington DC and is also principal trombone of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania. Beginning in the fall of 2004, Mr. Phillips will begin his duties with the Baylor School of Music and will periodically travel to Harrisburg to perform Masterwork subscription concerts, maintaining his tenured position in the orchestra. As trombonist with the "President's Own", Mr. Phillips has gained extensive experience as a soloist. He was most recently featured with the Marine Band Chamber Orchestra playing the Concerto for Alto Trombone and Orchestra by Johann Albrechtsberger and has been a frequent soloist with the Marine Band during the summer concert series on the National Mall and Wolf Trap Farm Park in Northern Virginia. In the fall of 2000, Mr. Phillips was a featured soloist on the Marine Band's fifty-two day national concert tour throughout the Southeast performing Arthur Pryor's "Blue Bells of Scotland".

Since 1996, Mr. Phillips has been principal trombone with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of maestro Stuart Malina, playing seven Masterworks, four Super Pops, one ballet and many family and educational concerts. The symphony association has sponsored Mr. Phillips several times on lecture recitals and master classes along with various community outreach events. Mr. Phillips has been a soloist on two occasions with the Harrisburg Symphony performing Arthur Pryor solo's for the orchestra's Super Pops concert series.

Mr. Phillips has performed with the Richmond Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Washington Symphonic Brass. He recently recorded with the New Colombian Wind Band, and was a soloist at the 2002 Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky. Mr. Phillips can be heard playing all of the trombone tracks on Discovery Channels Shark Week 03 and Oshea's Adventure on Animal Planet, has recorded with the Washington Symphonic Brass as well as numerous Marine Band recordings from 1996 through 2003. Many live concert venues with the Marine Band are regularly aired on NPR's Performance Today.

Mr. Phillips is an active clinician and guest artist around the country at many colleges and universities and has been a soloist at the Eastern Trombone Workshop hosted by the US Army Band. As an active clinician, Mr. Phillips is a recent Edwards Artist and plays exclusively on Edwards trombones.

In addition to his duties with "The President's Own" and the Harrisburg Symphony, Mr. Phillips is also a founding musician and board member of Dominion Brass Music Ministries; a 501 c3 non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring about spiritual awareness and through songs, hymns and text. This ministry has partnered with local churches, crisis pregnancy centers, STEP (Strategies to Elevate People) and other agencies in hopes of advanced community outreach. Dominion Brass, a large brass and percussion ensemble, seeks to come alongside musicians to renew their interest in using their talents for a greater spiritual purpose. Musicians in the Dominion Brass consists of professionals from the Marine Band, Navy Band, Army Band, Army Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and many other regional orchestras.

Mr. Phillips grew up in Houston Texas playing trombone and attended Westfield High School under Director of Bands, Philip Geiger. His primary teachers who were members of the Houston Symphony and Houston Grand Opera and included Jim Pedigo, David Waters and David Kirk. He also studied briefly with Alan Barnhill and John McCroskey of the Houston Symphony as well as Per Brevig of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Phillips received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree in trombone performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

While in Houston Mr. Phillips was a member of the prestigious Ambient Brass Quintet of Houston and was Adjunct Lecturer of Trombone at Lee College in Baytown Texas where he maintained an active teaching studio. During his years of study at Rice University, Mr. Phillips taught privately in the Katy, Cy-Fair and Spring Branch school districts in the greater Houston area.