出生于马来西亚，Philip Hii 10岁就开始学吉他，在赢得马来西亚的国家吉他比赛奖后，他去新西兰学习法律。 Hii 赢得了新西兰国家杯比赛奖，出现在国家电视台上。 他1983年来美国之前，继续到英国和德国深造。 Philip 从惠灵顿维多利亚大学获得了 B. Mus 学位，在伯克利音乐学院获得爵士乐文凭，在美国北德克萨斯州获得了音乐学硕士学位。

英文详细介绍：

GSP recording Artist Philip Hii has performed extensively in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and New Zealand. His Bach CD has received rave reviews from critics in Germany, England, Japan and the US. It was chosen as one of Guitar Player Magazine's picks of the month which says, "His passionate rubato and penetrating tone contribute to a thrilling performance." The Washington Post calls the CD "exciting" and "dazzling." and Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls him "the Heifetz of the classical guitar."

A native of Malaysia, Philip Hii started playing the guitar at age ten. After winning a national competition in Malaysia, he left for New Zealand to study law. Hii won the New Zealand National Cup and appeared on national television. He furthered his studies in England and Germany before coming to the United States in 1983. Philip holds a B. Mus degree from Victoria University of Wellington as well as a jazz arranging diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas.

Philip Hii has published numerous articles in Soundboard, Guitar International, Gitarre und Laute, and American String Teacher and is a former Guitar Forum Editor for the AST. Six of his Bach transcriptions have been published by Guitar Solo Publications.

媒体评论：

"Nobody plays the guitar like Philip Hii; he's a Heifetz of the classical guitar. Hii's Allegro is the best I've ever heard and the Toccata and Fugue is downright scary. This is must listening for classical guitar buffs who want to blow a few fuses."

Diane Gordon, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"Philip Hii's approach is not only spirited and gutsy, but is scholarly...one that I recommend to all who want guitar music to rise above the salon and to express a little more than intimate charm...Philip Hii joins the daring band of prospectors who have mined new gold."

Colin Cooper, Classical Guitar Magazine, England

"An even more exciting disc - because it faces more serious challenges and meets them brilliantly - is J. S. Bach: New Transcriptions for Guitar". Hii makes it sound as if it had been composed for his own instrument - no small accomplishment."

Joseph McLellan,The Washington Post

"Fortunately for music lovers, there can never be a definitive Bach, but Philip Hii's New Transcriptions for Guitar must certainly join the ranks of the great performances and will undoubtedly give up-and-coming contenders an exciting goal to strive for."

Michael Wright, Audio Magazine

"A guitarist with virtuosic precision, highest marked perfection, accuracy and the ambition to reach the highest hurdle. He can cast a magic spell on six strings which one rarely hears from this instrument in this country."

Walter Mottl, Die Rheinpfalz, Kaiserslauten, Germany

"...astonishing technique, abundant ideation and liquid expression...elegant sense of timing, his genuine interpretation and superb phrasing, the result being a completely satisfying Bach recital that borders on revelation. Yes, two roads diverged in a wood and Hii - he took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

John Schneider, Soundboard Magazine

"Incredible CD... I am mesmerized and awestruck... a guitar master of the highest order."

Raul Jose, In Tune - Arizona Classical Guitar Society

其个人主页：http://www.philiphii.com

其访谈文章：AARON SHEARER: AN INTERVIEW
见：http://www.delmar.edu/music/shearer.html

其专业论文："Bach's Method of Transcription." Soundboard 17(Spring 1990): 28-33
见：http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html

"Slurring Practices in Baroque Guitar and Lute Music" Soundboard (1987-88: 252-255）
见：http://www.delmar.edu/music/slurring.html

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