"“Jessica Phillips, the Met’s acting principal clarinetist, played a particularly beautiful, mournful introduction to ‘E lucevan le stelle’."
—New York Classical Review 2022
"The Met orchestra played very well, and it was an especially good night for two principal woodwinds: Nathan Hughes, oboe, and Jessica Phillips, clarinet. What beautiful and assured contributions they made."
— The Criterion
"Seth Morris, the Met’s principal flutist, and clarinetist Jessica Phillips traded arpeggios and trills — played at amazing speed — and joined in rapid-fire scales that ended in boisterous woodwind screams. Katelan Trần Terrell was the anchor on piano, keeping the whole musical pinwheel of color and rhythm spinning without coming undone. It was an exhilarating, entertaining opener."
