Currently residing in Tucson, Philip Moody is an active member of the music community. Mr. Moody is the Artistic Director and Founder of CORO and is a doctoral graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona. He most recently lived in Houston where he sang professionally and taught in the choral department at Clear Brook High School for three years. Before teaching, he spent four years as the Schissler Conducting Fellow at the Moores School of Music: University of Houston. As the orchestral conducting fellow at the Moores School of Music he was the Associate Conductor for the  Moores Opera Center, both Assistant Conductor and Manager for the Moores School Orchestras, and Orchestra Manager for the Texas Music Festival. He has received a Master of Music in orchestral and opera conducting from University of Houston. From the University of New Mexico: Albuquerque he received two Master of Music degrees: one in conducting and one in voice and received his Bachelor of Music in Sacred Music/Voice from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

 Mr. Moody is an active conductor and vocalist.  He is routinely asked to participate in clinics and masterclasses for high school and college choral ensembles and gives private voice lessons.  Mr. Moody was a co-founder of the male vocal ensemble Cantus, based in Minneapolis, where he sang with the ensemble and served as the Artistic Director and Business Director; he has also served as Artistic Director of the Rivercross Theater Company in Northfield, MN.  In Albuquerque, he served as Music Director of the University of New Mexico Theater Department and conducted at the Albuquerque Little Theater, Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, and Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral. As a soloist, Mr. Moody has sung under such renowned conductors as Robert Shaw, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Spano, John Fiore, Phillipe Jordan, and Ole Kristian Ruud.  He has performed with the choruses of Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Minnesota Opera and performed several seasons with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Cantare Houston, and the Houston Chamber Choir.  He is a member of ACDA, Chorus America, and the International Federation of Choral Music.