Biographical information

Sheena Phillips (b. 1958) is a composer and arranger, chiefly of choral and chamber music, currently based in New Jersey.

A native of Britain, she grew up in the London area and studied mathematics at Cambridge University, England, where she gained a first class Honours degree. She worked for 10 years in a variety of non-governmental organizations, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Friends of the Earth (Scotland), but gradually developed an alternative career in music, starting with the award-winning Rudsambee Company of Singers in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2000, Sheena moved to Columbus, Ohio with her family, where she worked as a choral director at Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, the Columbus Women's Chorus, Otterbein University, and the Magpie Consort.  She served as the Repertoire & Standards Chair for Community Choirs in the Ohio Choral Directors Association from 2007 - 2011.  In the summer of 2011, she moved with her husband to the Princeton area of New Jersey.

Sheena has been commissioned and performed by many groups including the National Youth Choir of Scotland, Columbus Public Art (Ohio), the Choral Project (San Jose, California), Chicago A Cappella, the Lancaster Chorale (Ohio), Zephyr (California), Seattle Pro Musica, Calliope Women's Chorus (Minnesota), the University of Alabama (Birmingham) Concert Choir, Cappella Nova (Scotland), the Dunedin Consort (Scotland), Hope College Chapel Choir (Michigan), First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio), the Columbus Women's Chorus, the Columbus Children's Choir, Civic Theater (Columbus, Ohio), the Magpie Consort, and many others.

Many of her shorter compositions and folk song arrangements are published by Canasg Music Publishing (of which she is a partner). She is also published by Santa Barbara Music Press, Earthsongs, Lorenz, and by the National Youth Choir of Scotland.  PDF perusal copies of any of her unpublished compositions are available on request by email to sheenaphillips[at]gmail.com