Philip Sills started playing guitar with Ronnie Walters as a child in New York. After many years of studying and playing electric guitar and while taking a philosophy degree at Tufts University in Boston he became passionately involved with the classical guitar. Moving to Mallorca, he was selected as guitarist in residence at Peter Burr 's legendary Centro de la Guitarra Espanola and amongst other fortuitous meetings had the opportunity of studying informally with David Russell and Paul Gregory, both 1st prize winners in the Andres Segovia Competition held in Mallorca. These two generous mentors and extraordinary musicians had a lifetime of influence on his musical and personal development. Mr. Sills assisted and played for 2 summer master classes with Jose Tomas at the Intitute Oscar Espla in Alicante. One can hear several of Mr Sills' pieces published by Doberman "Productions d'Oz" being played by both David Russell and Paul Gregory on UTube.
Philip Sills died on June 14 2014