Philip Bauman, Music Director & Conductor

DOWNERS GROVE ORATORIO SOCIETY “The 4 Coronation Anthemsx(were) at this concert, impeccably performed…Bauman is a director of tremendous enthusiasm…. I can’t remember a director who shared his joy of music so generously with both his performers and his audience. No one could fail to be moved.” Alan Soukup, Downers Grove Reporter  

“The orchestra under Philip J. Bauman played with Spanish litheness and verve.” Dan Tucker, Opera News

LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA “Under Bauman’s leadership, the phrasing had line, shaping a musical statement.””The players deserve a lot of credit for this success but Bauman must be congratulated on his successful nurturing and caring for this orchestra. For it is the musical insight of the conductor which allows the successful performance. He must mold [...]

ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Pops Alive! Concert: “The Elgin Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Pops Alive! Concert’ Sunday filled the audience with rushes of adrenaline that are likely to keep spirits soaring until spring. Associate conductor Philip J. Bauman led the orchestra through a wonderfully smooth Overture to ‘Candide’…(it) set the mood for an afternoon of brilliant music, lushly [...]

ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Beethoven’s Eroica “Trumpeter’s musical mix blows away ESO audience.” “The ESO [Elgin Symphony Orchestra], marvelously led Saturday night by assistant conductor Philip Bauman, was an extraordinary on Jose Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango.” George Rawlinson, The Courier News (2001)

FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS “Don’t try to find Meaning in Steins cunning word games or Thomson’s Missouri-flavored music, and you’ll have a wonderful time at ‘Four Saints.’ Thomson’s score, a faux-naif melange of waltzes, tangos, fox trots and ersatz Baptist hymns is the devil to perform properly. The musical prosody involves constant tempo changes [...]

WHEATON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA “Bauman was in command on the podium. He was quite animated with big sweeping baton motions. Bauman and the WSO did their part to make this a truly magical performance of the the Walton Violin Concerto. The orchestra boldly captured all the hot blooded emotions of this piece [Turnia’s Danzas Fantasticas] and [...]