Operatic rôles include Macbeth, Nabucco, Dandini, Tarquinius, Junius, Nick Shadow, Il Conte (Nozze di Figaro), Chao Lin (A Night at the Chinese Opera) Declan (The Imposter, or, Tartuffe in Ulster, a new opera based on the music of Weill), Thesée (Hippolyte et Arice), Escamillo, Morales, El Dancaïro, and Jesus (Good Friday).

Phil has performed in the Wales Millennium Centre, the Riverfront Centre, Glamis castle, Oban, Paxton House Summer Music, Mid-Argyll and Upper Deeside Music Societies, and is an aLuMNus of Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now! scheme. His repertoire includes Dichterliebe, Chansons Gaillardes, Songs of Travel, Italienisches Liederbuch, and A Shropshire Lad, and his oratorio work includes Carmina Burana, A Sea Symphony, The Apostles (Jesus) and Ich habe Genug in venues from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the Usher Hall, to the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.

Recordings include a CD of Philip Wilby’s music for Naxos records with the Black Dyke Band which went straight into the top ten, Wilby’s Bronte Mass with Black Dyke and the Bach Choir under David Hill (released 2010), Caldwell for Guild records and a CD by the Scottish composer Robin Downie.