Philip Collin was Organ Scholar of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He then took a post-graduate diploma in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied with John York. Since then he has worked extensively as a vocal coach, repetiteur, adjudicator, organist and conductor, and performed as a song accompanist throughout the UK and Europe.

In 2001 Philip recorded a CD with soprano Sally Bradshaw entitled The Soul of Orpheus, a collection of songs about or inspired by Greek mythology. In 2006 he twice performed the complete works for voice and piano by Gerald Finzi with tenor Peter Wilman and baritone Howard Wong to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Finzi’s death as part of the Canterbury Finzi Festival and the Nottingham Finzi Festival, the latter being an event which he co-directed. He has written for Piano Magazine on Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake and has given public talks on choral music, piano music and songs.

Recently Philip has performed in the inaugural Malvern Songfest, premiering songs by Ian Venables and Elaine Hugh-Jones and giving the first performance of two as-yet unpublished songs by Ivor Gurney and taken part in the Vaughan Williams Anniversary Weekend at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.