Phil Wilcox is a uniquely versatile musician and portfolio career artist who enjoys a richly diverse musical life. He is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, and appears regularly as a concert soloist, opera singer, animateur and professional chorister in the UK and abroad.

 

Phil is proud to be the Learning and Participation Manager for Leeds Song. In this role, he coordinates and delivers projects and performances that introduce Art Song to people who might not have experienced it before and encourages them to engage with classical song in a creative and imaginative way. Working with school children and adults with learning disabilities, and occasionally surprising the unsuspecting general public in pop up performances, Phil aims to show that classical music is an exciting and illuminating art form available to everyone and full of amazing characters and stories.

 

As a vocal animateur and workshop leader, Phil has worked with English Touring Opera, Royal Ballet and Opera, English National Opera, Opera North, Opera Holland Park Inspire, Waterperry Opera, the BBC Singers, Leeds College of Music and Hull University to name a few; and has delivered workshops for corporate clients including the NHS Training Academy, the Leadership Foundation for HE, Bank of England, Endemol, Enotria&Coe, and Amnesty International. As a student at the Royal Academy of Music Phil worked on several projects with Open Academy alongside Hackney Empire, Wigmore Hall and Glyndebourne Opera.

 

Phil’s performing credits include operatic roles with English Touring Opera, Waterperry Opera, Buxton International Festival, Northern Opera Group, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Tête à Tête, Devon Opera, Merry Opera, Gothic Opera, and Charing Cross Theatre. He has performed as soloist for performances of works ranging from Monteverdi Vespers to Verdi Requiem, the Bach Passions to Philip Glass’ Songs of Milarepa, in concerts all over the UK. Phil has recently appeared as a chorister with Opera North, the BBC Singers and the Philharmonia Chorus; and as a soloist for Oxford Lieder and the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and New York.

Phil is a choral director and leads three choirs for Music in Offices based in law firms in the City of London and a community choir, Fleet Singers, based in Gospel Oak and in September 2025 takes up the baton with East Grinstead Choral Society. When not on the concert platform or leading a workshop, Phil is a regular performer on the UK ceilidh scene playing the piano accordion.