Sheena Phillips: choir director

Now back in the USA after 8 years in London, I have resumed working as Artistic Director of the Magpie Consort in Columbus, Ohio. I am also director of the treble ensemble The Cardinal Singers at Otterbein University, and accompanist and assistant director of the Columbus Women’s Chorus. I have served as Repertoire and Resources Chair of the Ohio Choral Directors Association (OCDA) for six years (2007 - 2011, 2022 - 2024).

Previous positions include:

music director, Belsize Community Choir, London (2016 - 2021)

music director, The Michael Singers (UCL student choir) (2016 - 2021)

leader of community singing group at Millway Medical Practice (2020 - 2022)

animateur in the Bach Choir Outreach Project, London (2015 - 17)

teacher, Sing for Life classes in Hampton Wick (2016 - 2017)

art and music projects with the children of St Michael and All Angels Church, Mill Hill

workshops e.g. with Early Music Forum of Scotland, 2015 Southbank Festival of Creativity (London), Woodcraft Folk (Watford), Good Neighbour Scheme for Mill Hill and Burnt Oak

artistic director, The Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio (2000 - 2011)

artistic co-director, Columbus Women’s Chorus (2007 - 11)

director of music, Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, Ohio (2004 - 11)

adjunct choral faculty, Department of Music at Otterbein University, Ohio (2007 - 11)

founding director, Rudsambee Company of Singers, Edinburgh, Scotland (1993 - 99)

Belsize Community Choir, London, June 2017 after rehearsal

The Magpie Consort, Ohio, dressed for their Gypsies & Sailors programme, 2010

The Columbus Women’s Chorus in the groove in 2009

voice class performance in Los Gatos, California, 2014

singing and drumming at a winter solstice gathering in Columbus, Ohio

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For further information, please contact me by email to sheenaphillips[at]gmail.com

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