Founded in 2016 by Burlington native and violinist Jeffrey Phillips and local choral/piano stalwart Roger Hatteberg, the Burlington Lunchtime Chamber Music Series has quickly found a dedicated audience and has brought high quality chamber music to downtown Burlington ten months of the year.

Jeffrey Phillips is a violinist and the Executive Director of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra.  He was a freelance violinist for 16 years in New York and London and was a founding member of the new music group Cadillac Moon Ensemble.  Jeffrey has performed with the English National Ballet, Artemis Chamber Ensemble, London Children’s Ballet, Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, Sequenza21, Mimesis Ensemble, and American Opera Projects.  He holds a BM from St. Olaf College, an MM from SUNY Purchase, and he  apprenticed with the Manhattan String Quartet for two years.  He studied chamber music with the aforementioned MSQ and members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Met Opera Orchestra.  Jeffrey plays on a Gaetano Chiocchi violin ca. 1860.  He is the co-founder of BLCMS with Roger Hatteberg. 

Over the first nine seasons BLCMS has featured over 95 local and regional musicians and has presented works by over 130 different composers from the Baroque through to the present including multiple local composers.