Dress rehearsal of James Romig’s Moments Like Clouds for piano and string quartet on 20 May 2026 at First United Methodist Church.
Founded in 2016 by Burlington native and violinist Jeffrey Phillips and local choral/piano stalwart Roger Hatteberg, the Burlington Lunchtime Chamber Music Series has quickly found a dedicated audience and has brought high quality chamber music to downtown Burlington ten months of the year.
Over the first ten seasons BLCMS has featured over 100 local and regional musicians and has presented works by over 140 different composers from the Baroque through to the present including numerous contemporary and local composers.
L-R: Violinist Jeffrey Phillips, pianist Ashlee Mack, violinist Alicia Maiz Alonso, cellist James Ellis, violist Kylie Little, and composer James Romig having just recorded James Romig’s BLCMS commissioned Moments Like Clouds for piano and string quartet on 18 May 2026 at the University of Iowa.
L-R: BLCMS co-founder Roger Hatteberg, pianist Ashlee Mack, BLCMS co-founder Jeffrey Phillips after Ashlee’s quiet music concert featuring Jürg Frey’s Miniature in Five Parts and Eva-Marie Houben’s enchanted landscapes on 21 January 2026 at First United Methodist Church.
Jeffrey Phillips is a violinist, teacher, and the Operations Manager of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. He was a founding member of the new music group Cadillac Moon Ensemble and a freelance violinist for 16 years in New York and London. Jeffrey has performed with ensembles worldwide including the English National Ballet, Artemis Chamber Ensemble, London Children’s Ballet, Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, Sequenza21, Mimesis Ensemble, American Opera Projects, and flutist Paula Robison at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also was part of a touring ensemble that performed ArcticMagic Flute with Martin Woods (Inupiaq) under the direction of William Todd Hunt in the Alaskan Arctic.
Jeffrey holds a BM from St. Olaf College, an MM from SUNY Purchase, and he apprenticed with the Manhattan String Quartet (MSQ) for two years. He studied violin with Laurie Smukler, Calvin Wiersma, Eric Lewis, and Andrea Een. He studied chamber music with the MSQ and members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Met Opera Orchestra. Jeffrey plays on a Gaetano Chiocchi violin ca. 1860.
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