Philip Griffin

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

Philip Griffin is an amazingly versatile, creative, and generous musician. He plays, improvises, and composes in many styles on many different instruments. During this episode you’ll hear him play the rebab, the ukulele, and guitar in his duo with violinist Jude Iddison. He reflects on his work teaching children and people with disabilities, and reflects on some of his important mentors including Richard Gill, Linsey Pollak and Ross Daly. In the video version, I’ve included a slide show of some of his amazing nature photography, which is also on my website linked to this episode, and the link for Philip’s website and Facebook page are also included below. In this conversation with Philip, I was really happy to be able to talk about some of the themes I find most interesting as a musician: education, creativity, and mentorship. Philip was introduced to me by Linsey Pollak, and I hope if you missed his episode that you’ll check it out: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/linsey-pollak

Like all my episodes, this is available as a video, and the transcript is linked here as well as some of his amazing nature photographs: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/philip-griffin

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(02:30) Linsey Pollak

(06:02) talking about different instruments laouto, oud, rebab, banjo

(10:24) Ross Daly, studying Turkish music

(17:10) introduction to the rebab

(20:24) rebab improv

(23:26) Ross Daly, tours to Australia with Kelly Thoma

(25:43) Linsey Pollak, learning modal music

(29:23) Ricahrd Gill, learning conducting, singing

(41:13) Tutti Arts, Pat Rix, and working with musicians with disabilities

(53:25) music educator in schools

(57:45) ukulele, New Zealand music programs Mary Cornish Maria Winder Kiwilele

(01:07:38) Pat Megowan luthier

(01:11:25) Renaissance guitar music by Tourdion on ukulele

(01:12:46) Affetto Early Music ensemble

(01:16:27) Dominique Schwartz: why Philip moved around so much!

(01:18:59) Banksia album with Jude Iddison

(01:19:31) violin Jude Iddison: Planting the Garlic/Philip’s Wardrobe from album Banksia

(01:24:32) meeting Jude and making the album

(01:27:15) Frogs, birds, Barry Wilson, photography (with slide show), Glen Storr

(01:36:08) Philip’s advice