Art Phillips (composer)

Art Phillips (born 1955, Erie, Pennsylvania) is a composer of film, television, and popular music. Phillips has been working in film and television for over 40 years.

Associate Professor Art Phillips specialises in production music and is the owner & director of 101 Music Pty Ltd®, a production music library catalogue consisting of over 80 library album releases with independent sub-publishing distribution deals across 90 foreign territories (www.101.audio).

101 Music is an APRA AMCOS supplier of ‘production music’ and represents over 65 production music catalogues throughout Australasia with over 250,000 tracks.

Art is a screen composer, songwriter and guitarist. He toured internationally with Minnie Riperton, Barry Manilow, George Benson, John Rowles, and Demis Roussos as musical director/guitarist, and has co-written a Top 10 Billboard R&B single.

A two-time Emmy Award recipient for ‘Outstanding Music Composition in a Drama Series’, with over 40 years of international experience including 2,000 hours of television scoring, Art’s production music publishing catalogue and record label (101 Music) has been used on television shows throughout the world including Married At First Sight, Neighbours, Top Gear, Jimmy Fallon, Oprah, and the Today Show.

Board positions include:

• President, Australian Guild of Screen Composers, 2001 ~ 2008 • Board Director, AMPAL, 2023 ~ Current • Councillor (Film & TV), Music Council Australia, 2005 ~ 2019 • Academic Board Member, Universal Business School Sydney & Academy of

    Music and Performing Arts