PHIL EDWARDS

Musical Supervisor

Phil Edwards was born and educated in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.  He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he won the City Livery Club Music Prize and the Guildhall Percussion Scholarship.

He went on to perform as a percussionist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and as a percussionist and keyboard player in many West End productions.

Phil became Musical Director of the U.K. national tour of ANNIE and subsequently fulfilled the same position in the West End production of STARLIGHT EXPRESS whose tour of Japan and Australia he also supervised.  He went on to become the original Musical Director of the West End production of MISS SAIGON.

He works regularly as composer and arranger for TV and Radio in Great Britain including the annual BBC programme SONG FOR CHRISTMAS and the documentary series with Frederick Forsyth SOLDIERS.  Radio work includes orchestrating Sandy Wilson’s TRELAWNEY.  He has written and orchestrated several film scores including THE MOST DANGEROUS MOMENT.   Phil also scored the short original film CUPID broadcast on R.T.E.

A happy few months were spent rehearsing and supervising the New Zealand production of CATS after which Phil returned to Germany to rehearse and conduct the first German production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT.

Returning to composing Phil spent the summer of 1997 in Las Vegas writing incidental music for the Las Vegas mega-show EFX starring David Cassidy.

Phil is currently the musical supervisor of STARLIGHT EXPRESS in London and Germany and the Hamburg production of CATS.

He was the musical supervisor for the world premiere production of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at the London Palladium and since then for the SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER on Broadway and Cologne, Germany.