My friend Richard Phillips, who has died aged 85, was a classical music impresario with a career that included directing more than 100 arts festivals.
After founding the York early music festival and Huddersfield contemporary music festival in the late 1970s, Richard moved back to his family home of Northgate, in Warwick, in 1980. From his desk he could see St Mary’s church, where the choir was the focus of Warwick Arts Week. On that foundation he built Warwick festival, which continued annually until 2005.
