Phill Wilson was born in 1969 in Sydney. He began playing the guitar at the age of 12, and studied with David Loveland in Brisbane, for 12 years. He graduated from Griffith University with a BA (Humanities) in Film and Media, and subsequently studied audio production before enrolling at the Southbank Institute of Tafe contemporary music course in 1995. After touring Australia, Japan and Europe, he studied composition with Robert Davidson, Michael Whelan, Stephen Stanfield and Richard Vella at QUT 1998-2001. Bachelor of Music with Distinction). He has attended master classes with English composer Steve Martland and with musicians of Tokyo Inter-Arts.

Phill has been a composer for Deep Blue Orchestra (since 2004), on staff at QUT as a sessional academic (2005) and teaches privately guitar, bass, ukulele (the thinking man’s violin), composition and music technology. A keen performer, Phill also plays piano and the accordion. Recent tours have included France (2008) and Malaysia (2009) – with China, the USA and a return to Japan and France planned for 2010.

Particularly interested in traditional forms of music, Phill began to study Japanese music and drama in 1998. He was a finalist in the 2005 Oz Music awards (classical) and received a star on the Brisbane city Brunswick Street rock’n’roll walk of fame 2008.

Aside from performance and composition, Phill works frequently as a mix/mastering
engineer and producer, having been involved with a myriad of artists and labels on over 20 releases. He has also worked within the fields of arranging, live sound, film scoring, publishing and media conversion.

More recently he has been touring with Deep Blue Orchestra (Winners of the 2009 APACA Drover Award for 'Excellent Audience Response') as guitarist and visual vj and with his own group Chucknee, who recently released their seventh album “Strange Tale From East of the River”.


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“Thanks for sending in your info and tape.
I have absolutely no idea what this is meant to be, or what you expect me to do with it.
…completely unsuitable in terms of what I’m looking for. I work on songs, not Chinese surf-punk instrumentals (I didn’t know there was such a thing before your CD arrived).”