Sheena Phillips

Sheena is a choral director and composer who has worked with amateur choirs of many shapes and sizes for thirty years. In 1993 she was the founding director of Rudsambee Company of Singers in Edinburgh. Originally from London, she is now based in Columbus, Ohio.

Much of her composing is inspired by traditional music, poetry and the natural world. Among the pieces published by Canasg are settings of Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Raine and William Soutar, and arrangements of folk songs and carols from Britain, North America, New Zealand, France and elsewhere in Europe.

Sheena has been commissioned and/or performed by numerous groups on both sides of the Atlantic, including the National Youth Choir of Scotland, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Columbus Public Art (Ohio), the St Magnus International Festival (Orkney), the Choral Project (San Jose, California), Voices of Ascension (NYC), the Peninsula Women’s Chorus (California), Seattle Pro Musica, Amasong (Illinois), Anima Children's Chorus (Chicago), Cappella Nova (Scotland), Echo (London), and Icosa (London). She has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

For more information, please visit Sheena's website at www.sheenaphillips.com