Philip Camillo Carli
199 Warwick Avenue
Rochester, New York 14611
(585) 527-9632
download print friendly version
(.doc)
Musicologist, sound recording historian, film
scholar, film accompanist, pianist and conductor.
EDUCATION
Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York.
Major: Musicology
Master of Arts degree awarded May 1990
Ph.D. degree awarded May 2003
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Major: Music History and Literature
Minor: Comparative Literature, with emphasis in Film Studies
(Major field advisor: Dr. Austin Caswell
Minor field advisor: Professor Harry Geduld)
B.M. degree awarded May 1986
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, Spring semester 2004-2005
Developed
and taught graduate course in “History and Aesthetics of Recorded Sound” (in
collaboration with Professor James Farrington).
Accompanist and Deputy Choral Director,
Pittsford Central School District, Pittsford, New York, 1989-1994, 1998-
Accompanies
six choral groups, including arranging music and substitute conducting for
choruses, bands and orchestras in the district.
Archivist (1994-1996) and Cataloguer
(1996-1998), Motion Picture Collections, George Eastman House, Rochester, New
York, 1994-1998
Responsible
for scholarly assistance and research in the Motion Picture Department and
collaboration on film restorations, including translation and restoration of
titles. As Archivist, responsible for the maintenance, inspection, and shipping
of all films from the collections to outside venues. As Cataloguer,
responsible for original cataloguing of films in the collections. Also acted as
representative of the Motion Picture Department to non-institutional film
organizations such as the Society of Cinephiles.
Music Director and Conductor, Flower City
Society Orchestra, Rochester, New York, 1993-
Responsible
for fifteen-piece orchestra specializing in the performance of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century popular music in period style on period instruments.
Accompanist and academic assistant for
"Introduction to Silent Film," undergraduate course at the University
of Rochester, 1990-
Assist
with course schedule development, provide lectures as required, and accompany
all films shown as part of class.
Departmental Assistant, Musicology
Department, Eastman School of Music
of
the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1988-92
Assisted
and taught in various courses dealing with musical periods from medieval times
to the present.
General Instructor in Palomar College
continuing education program, Camp Pendleton, 1982-84
Taught
mathematics, English grammar and composition to marines, all much older and
larger.
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
Film
orchestral conducting, 1996-
Ongoing
tours conducting theatrical and full orchestral performances of scores for Peter Pan and Stella Maris at festivals including the San Francisco Silent Film
Festival (2001), the Hamptons International Film Festival (2000), and Il gionate del cinema muto, Pordenone,
Italy (1996), and at venues including George Eastman House, Rochester, NY,
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY and Ball State University, Muncie, IN, the Lincoln
Center, New York, NY and the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Staff
film accompanist at George Eastman House, 1989-
Accompany
all regularly scheduled silent film presentations at the Museum's Dryden and
Peck Curtis Theatres, in addition to acting as liaison between the Motion
Picture Department and the musical community at large.
Solo
film accompanist, 1976-
Program
and accompany film presentations at many U.S. and international venues,
including annual duties with Le giornato
del cinema muto, Sacile, Italy and the U.S. film conventions Cinecon, Cinevent, Cinefest, and Cinesation; ongoing film series at
Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, the NorthEast Historic Film Archive and the
Capitol Theater in Rome, NY.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
“Recording Music and Experiences: J. Louis von der Mehden,
Jr., at the New York Studio of the US Phonograph Company”
Paper
read at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections National Conference,
Cleveland, Ohio, February 2004.
Synergy in America's Early Talking Machine Industry:
Technological, Commercial, Cultural, and Musical Factors in Band and Orchestral
Recordings, 1894-1917 Eastman
School of Music dissertation, 2003.
Review
of Jacques Offenbach: An Annotated
Discography in Five Volumes by Robert L. Folstein. “Edited and available at
Redaktion der Bad Emser Hefte in VGDL Bad Ems. Dr. Ulrich Brand, Mühlbachweg 6,
D-56357 Berg/Taunus.” Review s published in fall 2000 ARSC Journal.
"Musicology
and its Rôle in Film Preservation" in Film
History, Winter
1995-96.
Selected program notes for Le giornate
del cinema muto 13 and 14,
Pordenone, Italy, 1994 and 1995.
“Melodrama as Opera: The Lily of
Killarney”
Paper
read at Melodrama: Stage and Screen
conference, British Film Institute, London, U.K., July 1992.
"The Daughter of St. Mark: an English
'Grand Opera Seria?'"
Paper read at regional meeting of the American Musicological
Society, Rochester, New York, April 1991.
SCORES AND RECORDINGS
Orchestral score commissioned June 2004 by Turner Classic Movies to accompany Captain Salvation (1925), recorded December 2005 by the Flower City Society Orchestra for broadcast by TCM, first aired April 2005.
Orchestral
score commissioned November 1997 by the Mary Pickford Foundation to accompany Stella Maris (1918), recorded February
1998 by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra for video release by Milestone Film
and Video.
Orchestral
score commissioned by Le giornate del
cinema muto for October, 1996 presentation of Peter Pan (1924), recorded June 1999 by the Flower City Society
Orchestra for video distribution by Kino International Film and Video.
Synchronized keyboard scores for
videotape and broadcast releases of 91 short and feature films by organizations
including American Movie Classics, Critics’ Choice Video, Film Preservation
Associates, Kino Video, Laughsmith, Milestone Video, and Smithsonian Video,
1993-. A list of these is published at http://www.philipcarli.com/filmlist.htm
Piano performances of Koczwara, Franz: "The Battle of Prague" and
Mendelssohn, Felix: "Fantaisie on
an Irish Air" recorded for inclusion in
Indiana University Victorian Studies,
Fall 1986.