Reviews
"...the heady sound world of clarinet and soprano, two breaths creating incredible richness.... A final Prière à Dieu was mesmerising."
David Smythe on Bachtrack, 14 August 2019 (review of premiere by Sally Carr and Calum Robertson of Un Petit Psaultier, commissioned by Jamie Reid Baxter. Full review
"Particularly notable were the multi-layered and multi-lingual Frog Music, sung by the younger lads, and the same composer's deliciously post-modern and very funny I Once Went A-Courting"
Keith Bruce, The Glasgow Herald 8 April 2010 (review of concert by National Boys Choir of Scotland)
"Sheena Phillips’s Sea Shanties were a novel delight"
Keith Bruce, The Glasgow Herald 9 April 2007 (review of concert by National Boys Choir of Scotland)
"The truly 'national' repertoire simply shone: James MacMillan's The Haile Spirit Dauncers and Sheena Phillips's glorious settings of three poems by William Soutar"
Keith Bruce, The Glasgow Herald 8 April 2002 (review of concert by National Boys Choir of Scotland)
"interesting arrangements [in which] the model seemed to be contemporary Celtic music"
Barbara Zuk, Columbus Dispatch 8 April 2002 (review of concert by the Lancaster Chorale)
"The equally versatile Phillips - a composer, instrumentalist, choral musician and ensemble director in addition to being an accomplished and communicative soprano - projected the stark beauty of Una sanosa porfia. The closing all-hands Chacona of Aranes showed that Phillips has a stage presence to go with her notable voice'"
Jon Christensen, Columbus Dispatch 10 November 2001 (review of concert by The Early Interval)
"Phillips is a gifted writer and arranger, able to turn her hand to setting poems by Shakespeare and Blake and responding to a friend's words about living with epilepsy in the touching Song for Jay. Rudsambee were joined by cellist Jane Rimer for an inspired setting by Phillips of a sixth century Welsh poem"
Susan Nickalls, Edinburgh Evening News 28 September 1999 (review of concert by Rudsambee company of singers)