• American Vernacular features ten world premiere • recordings. • Pianist Nicholas Phillips maintains an active schedule as a soloist, having played in venues across the United States and abroad. • His previous albums, Portals and Passages and Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music both garnered critical acclaim. • Mr. Phillips is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. • ""...an able and persuasive advocate"" of new music (New York Times)