He is a percussionist, composer and arranger also known as Flip Philipp, born in Oberwart, Austria who started music lessons on recorder, percussion and trumpet when he was 5 years old. When he was 14 he started studies at Graz University of Music and Performing Arts followed by the Franz Schubert Conservatory. He also studied at improvisation clinics at the Berklee Summer College of Music in Perugia, Italy.
He became a substitute of various Viennese orchestra in 1987 and in 1990 became a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as a percussionist and was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 2008 to 2010. He has also been a member of Piano Meets Percussion.
He has performed with several artists and ensembles that include Charles Aznavour, Jose Carreras, Natalie Cole, Placido Domingo, Lucciano Pavarotti, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Diana Ross, the ensemble Die Reihe and the Super World Orchestra.
His solo work, often as a vibraphone player, has seem him working with the Hammond Organ Vibes Quartet, the Flips Philipp/Klemens Marktl Constellation, in a dectet or octet which he co-directed with Ed Partyka and in a duo with Oliver Kent.
His work as a composer and arranger saw him writing the ballet Caravaggio for the Vienna Volksoper in 1999. He has performed his “Dissonata Concrodata” in 2004 at the Cairo Opera and in 2007 performed his “Concerto for Marimba and Strings” in Istanbul.
His recordings are many and include his own Fliptronics and Muse along with Opium, Offtime and The Hair of the Dog by Flip Philipp-Ed Partyka Dectet, Open Sea by Flip Philipp/Klemens Marktl Constellation, Hermannology by the GHO Orchestra, Summer Sun by Koop, Only the Tonight by Austen Louie, A Tribute to George Gershwin and Third Dream by The Vienna Art Orchestra and Accident & Emergency by Patrick Wolf.
Sources:
- https://www.flip-philipp.at/
- https://www.musicaustria.at/portraet-flip-philipp/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Philipp
- https://www.wienersymphoniker.at/de/orchester/die-wiener-symphoniker#107614
- https://db.musicaustria.at/node/181574
- https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_P/Philipp_Flip.xml
- http://www.pianomeetspercussion.at/vitae.html
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/759553-Flip-Philipp?type=Credits&subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0&page=1