Houghton is one of Australia’s formost classical guitar composers. His work
has been extensively recorded by John Williams, Carlos Bonell, Karen Schauppe,
Zoo Duo and many other prominant classical guitarist around the world. John
Williams has honoured Houghton by naming one of his albumns after one of his
works. Carlos Bonells new album ‘Kinkachoo’ also is named after one of
Houghton pieces.

His most acknowledged work is ‘Stelle’, a master piece of audial imagry
inspired by the ancient statue of Artimus, a perfume. Both John Williams and
Karen Schappe have recorded Stelle.

His solos and mixed instument works are distributed world wide by Moonstone
Music (Melbourne, Australia)

His music has been misaken discribed as ‘minimalist’. Being a guitarist
himself, his understanding of the beautiful tones of the guitar are explored
deeply in his works. His pieces are unsurpasted by any modern living guitar
composter.

A selection of his work is to be found on the AMAB syllabus.

Phillip currently resides in Brisbane Australia.