ObituaryPhilip& Winsor
Submitted on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Philip G. Winsor, Denton, professor of music and co-founder and director of the Center
for Experimental Music and Intermedia, died Jan. 24. Winsor, who worked at UNT from
1982 to 2010, earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and a master’s
from San Francisco State University. He completed postgraduate work at the University
of California at Berkeley, Milan Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois.
He also taught at DePaul University and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.His
musical compositions were performed at Carnegie Hall, Radio Cologne, Radio Tel Aviv,
Warsaw's Poland Conservatory, the Korea National Institute of the Arts in Seoul and
Korea National Education University in Cheong-ju. Other works were commissioned by
experimental cinematographers and modern dance companies, and he also exhibited traditional
and experimental photographic prints. He held many guest composer residencies, including
at the University of Michigan, Amherst University and Electronic Music Plus Festival
in Nashville. His honors and grants included the Prix de Rome, a Fulbright Fellowship,
a National Endowment for the Arts Composition Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Study Center Artist Residency and a Ford Foundation for Electronic Music
Fellowship. Memorials may be made to the Phil Winsor Scholarship Fund in the College
of Music.