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Jump to: navigation, searchPhilip Achille is a British harmonica player who attended Solihull School, a British independent school in the West Midlands. He is currently studying Chromatic Harmonica at the Royal College of Music.
Philip is also able to play the bass and the saxophone
His recent achievements include:
- National Harmonica League Player of the Year 2005 [1]
- World Youth Solo Chromatic Harmonica Champion 2005 [1]
- World Open Harmonica Champion 2005 [2][3]
- Tabor Foundation Award 2006 [1]
- Birmingham International Jazz Festival Young Musician 2006 [4]
- Eurovision Young Musician of the Year Finalist 2008
- Philip featured in the soundtrack for the 2007 movie Mr. Bean's Holiday.
- Philip played the introduction section for Jon Bon Jovi's finale of the Royal Variety Performance 2007.[5]
- Philip also played at Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday celebration in Hyde Park, London in September of 2008.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "BBC - Young Musician of the Year - Tabor Foundation Award". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/competition/tabor.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
- ^ "Teen brings harmonica to the masses". SecEd. 2006-02-02. http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/news/article.html?uid=1117. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
- ^ "Philip's hitting the high notes". Birmingham Mail. 2006-01-25. http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=16625134%26siteid=50002-name_page.html. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
- ^ "Featured Performers: Philip Achille, Harmonica". Channel 4. http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/H/how_music_works/p_achille.html. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
- ^ Philip's Royal Variety Performance, December 2007
- ^ Andrew Lloyd Webber's Birthday in the Park, Sunday 14th September
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