Phillip Wilcher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Phillip Wilcher
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1958(1958-03-16)
Age	66
Birthplace	Australia
Country	Australia
Birth City	Camperdown
Horoscope	Pisces

Phillip Wilcher Biography

Phillip Wilcher is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on March 16, 1958 in Australia, Camperdown, Australia. Though most famous for his membership in the popular Australian kids’ band The Wiggles, this musician also had a prolific career as a composer of piano music.

He and Anthony Field were both founding members of The Wiggles.

Phillip Leslie Wilcher (born 16 March 1958) is an Australian pianist and classical music composer who was a founding member of the children’s music group The Wiggles. When Wilcher published his first work, “Daybreak”, at the age of 14, he was one of the youngest classical composers in Australia.

For seven years, after he published “Daybreak”, Wilcher was a student of composer and musicologist, Franz Holford, who was an editor at J. Albert & Son; he later composed music with Holford for over twenty years. Wilcher’s piano piece, “Autumn Rain”, was published when he was 17, by J. Albert & Son. He also studied with classical musicians Neta Maughan and Elpis Liossatos, and began a thirty-year association with composer Miriam Hyde. Hyde is quoted as saying of Wilcher: “I find great satisfaction in the fact that we – Australia – have one composer who can succeed in a medium of sensitivity in spite of the ugliness and violence predominating in so many countries.” In 1976 Wilcher became an assistant editor for J. Albert & Son’s Classical/Educational Division. During the 1980s he worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

He grew up in Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia as the son of Leslie James Wilcher and Naomi Joy Thompson.

Phillip Wilcher Net Worth

Phillip Wilcher is one of the richest Pianist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phillip Wilcher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His first musical composition, “Daybreak,” was published when he was just fourteen years old.

His albums include Out of the Blowing Sands, Arabesque, and Etchings.

Phillip Leslie Wilcher was born to Naomi Joy Thompson (8 April 1929 – 21 June 2005) and Leslie James Wilcher (born 16 January 1923), a World War II veteran. Wilcher grew up in Camperdown. As of 2004, he resided in Concord and owns no cell phone, watch, or car: “My entire life since I was a boy was writing music and that has overshadowed everything. I would be happy living in an oversized cardboard box with a piano and a blank sheet of manuscript paper”.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Phillip Wilcher Dating?

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In 1993, Wilcher published a lesson plan for early childhood activities, A Musical Offering. The Australian composer and music educator, Dulcie Holland remarked: “Phillip Wilcher’s ‘A Musical Offering’ is an ingenious and imaginative approach to music. Through rhythm and rhyme, movement and sound, the very young person is gently introduced to music as an enjoyable activity. This will provide a wonderful foundation for a lifetime of musical experience and richness.” Holland would later set Wilcher’s poem ‘Sounds and Silence’ from ‘A Musical Offering’ for women’s choir. It was premiered by The Faye Dumont Singers and later published by EMI.

Facts & Trivia

Phillip Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Phillip Wilcher celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.

His works have been included on several other CDs released by Jade Music and Wirripang. Pianist Jeanell Carrigan has recorded six CDs of his compositions, two for Publications by Wirripang. Carrigan, on the transportive nature of Wilcher’s music, remarked: “Whether he wishes to transport the listener to a cafe in Paris or to the top of a mountain in Java, his skilful use of harmony, rhythm and tempi creates the perfect atmosphere.” Rita Crews, in a review of Carrigan’s album Shimmer (2004) for The Studio Quarterly Magazine, described Wilcher’s style as “free-flowing, with an underlying romantic character, one in which melodic line and lyricism are all-important elements”. 2MBS-FM’s Mike Smith found it was of “a more openly romantic nature than in his earlier” work and he was “reminded of Rachmaninov, Albeniz and even Brahms”.

Why did Phillip leave the Wiggles?

According to Phillip Wilcher, the reason why he left is because he wasn’t comfortable performing with the other four Wiggles. Their spokesperson, Dianna O’Neill, claims that he submitted a letter of resignation because he wanted to continue composing classical music.

Was there a 5th Wiggle?

“Phillip Wilcher” is an Australian pianist and composer, also known as the Fifth Wiggle , since he was one of the founding members of The Wiggles who left the group just after the group’s debut album in 1991. While the accounts surrounding his departure differ, he left the group shortly before the group became famous.

Who was the original 5th Wiggle?

In the eighth episode, Jake, Chris, Matthew and Wyatt chat with composer and original 5th Wiggle Phillip Wilcher , where they talk about his time working with Australian children’s group The Wiggles, his song “Mischief the Monkey”, how his love of music started and so much more!

Is Emma Dorothy the Dinosaur?

In 2010, Watkins began performing with the Wiggles, first as Fairy Larissa and then as Wags the Dog, Dorothy the Dinosaur , and as a Wiggly Dancer. She used her film skills during tours with the group, providing them with video and editing services.

How much is Emma from The Wiggles worth?

According to Practical Parenting, Emma has a net worth of about $12 million , an impressive sum that is only a bit short of longtime Wiggle Anthony. With her career only seemingly growing by the year, it goes without saying that Emma is still posed to do even bigger things.