A prolific British guitarist, composer and teacher. He played the violin and studied theory from the age of five however he swapped to guitar at fifteen to study Jazz, Brazilian and African music. After his studies at Newcastle college of music Phillips moved to London where he set up his group Oriole with whom he has released three albums on the F-IRE Collective label. Oriole are perhaps one of the few groups to feature two Mercury-nominated artists: Ben Davis on cello and Seb Rochford on drums. Phillips is now based in South London after a three and a half year period living in Andalusia, Spain.

The Guardian – “prolific guitarist-composer Jonny Phillips seems to have tunes coming out of his ears.”

BBC Music Magazine – “Outstanding” *****

Record Collector – “Ravishingly beautiful” ****

Visiting tutor of Jazz guitar and improvisation on all instruments, I also run the Ernest Bevin Jazz Ensemble. (12 piece group). Ernest Bevin College is a state run secondary school.