A graduate from Bass School Munich, Sir Paul McCartney’s fame school LIPA and the Royal Northern College Of Music on bass guitar and double bass respectively, Phil joined Universal-signed songwriter Amy Smith’s band in 2005, which set up a move to London and concluded an 11-year stay in the UK. In 2012 Phil also set up a base in Bern, Switzerland, where he runs his own Jazz series at the Mahogany Hall and explores the contemporary aspects of alpine folk music with his band Jütz. The ‘IMPRESSIVE BASSIST‘ (Londonjazz) has performed and recorded extensively in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and South America since and has shared stages and recording rooms with the following artists

• POPULAR  Simply Red (tour support UK&Ireland)  Jamie Cullum  Jimmy Cliff  John Butler  KD Lang  Morcheeba  Kosheen  Belleruche  Nate James  Amy Smith  Jon Allen  Paddy Milner  Julia Biel  Fiji  Gus MacGregor  Jaël Krebs  Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian  Manu Delago  7Foot Porok Karpo
• IMPROVISED  New York Sound Liberation  Swiss Jazz Orchestra  Mino Cinelu  Adam Holzman  Lew Soloff  Michael Wolff  David Taylor  Julian Joseph  Steve Waterman  Roberto Pla  Stuart McCallum  Trevor Tomkins  Birger Sulsbrück  John Turville  Hello Truffle  Martin Dahanukar New Quartet
• VENUES  Royal Albert Hall  The Roundhouse London  LA Downtown Theatre  Knitting Factory New York  Paradiso Amsterdam  Harpa Reykjavik  Blå Oslo  Porgy&Bess Vienna  Kaufleuten Zürich  Grosse Halle Bern  Les Docks Lausanne Philharmonie Berlin  Tonhalle Zürich
• TV & RADIO  BBC2 Live broadcast (SXSW Austin Texas)  BBC6’Introducing’  BBC3  France Inter ’Le Foux de Roi’  Radio 2 Netherlands  WDR Germany  Television Suisse Romandie’Musicomat’  Radio Ö1  ORF  ’The Upper Hand with Joe Kelly’ Connecticut, US
• STUDIO with Producers  Steven Harris  Ian Grimble  Marc Ellis  Denis Ingoldsby  Rune Langhelle  Dan Gatreau  Andrea Wright  Matt Roberts

WRITING & US CHART SUCCESS  Phil passionately explores the boundaries between music technology and songwriting. Rough Trade likened his Killerfernandez debut album Feitaboogie to ’Massive Attack, Lamb, Ninja Tune’. His collaboration with Japanese singer Naomi Suzuki, AJ Unity, received rave reviews and resulted in a No 14 spot in the FMQB US Official Radio Chart, whilst maintaining No 1 position on the tastemaker site kingsofspins.com for several weeks.

ACF LONDON  From 2009 to 2012 Phil co-launched, curated and hosted the Austrian Cultural Forum London music series Sound Park Austria which stimulates the creative exchange between Austrian and British musicians. The concerts are hosted regularly in London.