Phillips and Huang a close-knit team at Collaborative Works Festival

Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Classical Review:

“Opening with Barber’s Hermit Songs, she drew the attentive capacity audience into the cycle’s medieval monastic world, each of the ten songs a highly individualized character study. Her elegant, polished tone took on maternal tenderness in “St. Ita’s Vision,” a lullaby for a nursing baby Jesus. In “At St. Patrick’s Purgatory,” her wide-ranging vocal line conveyed the alternating resolve and baffled terror of a saint in a crisis of faith. Reaching the top of Barber’s often lyrical vocal lines, Phillips sent up clear, luminous notes that also contained hints of fragility and an air of solitary struggle.”