PROGRAMME
IVES
Three Places in New England
WALLEN
Dances for Orchestra (World Premiere)*
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring (complete ballet)

conductor Ryan Bancroft

PROGRAMME
IVES
Three Places in New England
WALLEN
Dances for Orchestra (World Premiere)*
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring (complete ballet)

conductor Ryan Bancroft

2 performances — at 2pm and 7.30pm

Errollyn Wallen gives a rare solo performance of her internationally acclaimed songs — her Wigmore Hall debut as a performer.

After the concert Errollyn will sign copies of her forthcoming book Becoming a Composer.

The concert starts at 1pm and lasts one hour.

First Congregational Church, Berkeley

PROGRAMME:

The Garden of Good and Evil

First Congregational Church, Berkeley

PROGRAMME:

The Garden of Good and Evil

Herbst Theatre San Francisco

Program
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Overture to Orlando
Heroic: “Al lampo dell’armi” from Giulio Cesare
Hideous: “Orride larve … Chiudetevi miei lumi” from Admeto
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322

Ancestor [West Coast Premiere]:
ERROLLYN WALLEN “The Forms”
TARIK O’REGAN “The Golden Measure”

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, Op. 6, No. 7, HWV 325
Sacred: “Father of Heav’n” from Judas Maccabaeus
Secular: “Se in fiorito ameno prato” from Giulio Cesare

Richard Egarr, conductor
Tim Mead, countertenor
Reginald Mobley, dramaturg

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

About This Concert
Handel was a man who understood the theater and its audience—always after his next hit, seeking to please his public. In this concert of contrasts and connections, we showcase his music for the stage, always recognizable by its emotional clarity, and at the heart of the evening place a duo of compositions exploring the creation story by two of today’s most powerful musical voices: Errollyn Wallen CBE and PBO’s Composer-in-Residence Tarik O’Regan.

Star British countertenor Tim Mead reprises these powerful performances in the Bay Area following acclaimed concerts in the United Kingdom last summer.

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Program
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Overture to Orlando
Heroic: “Al lampo dell’armi” from Giulio Cesare
Hideous: “Orride larve … Chiudetevi miei lumi” from Admeto
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322

Ancestor [West Coast Premiere]:
ERROLLYN WALLEN “The Forms”
TARIK O’REGAN “The Golden Measure”

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, Op. 6, No. 7, HWV 325
Sacred: “Father of Heav’n” from Judas Maccabaeus
Secular: “Se in fiorito ameno prato” from Giulio Cesare

Richard Egarr, conductor
Tim Mead, countertenor
Reginald Mobley, dramaturg

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

HALMSTAD KULTURHUSET NAJADEN SWEDEN

KUNGSBACKA KUNGSBACKA TEATER SWEDEN

EPISODE 3: The Hebrides Overture, 9 October, 8pm

Myleene and Errollyn explore Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal’s Cave. Featuring a special performance from leading British orchestra the Philharmonia Orchestra.

MALMÖ PALLADIUM MALMÖ SWEDEN

TINGSRYD SÖDERPORTYRKAN

SWEDEN

Venue:

VÄXJÖ NYGATAN 6 SWEDEN

VENUE

Dumfries House
Cumnock
Ayrshire
KA18 2NJ
01290 425 959

Scott Dickinson and Andrew Berridge violas
Scott Dickinson and Andrew Berridge have shared the front stand of the viola section of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for twenty years. Having performed and broadcast George Benjamin’s Viola Viola and Nigel Osborne’s Transformations 1, their Viola Duo Project came from a deep desire to develop creative relations for this expressive sound world with a wide range of composers. Commissions to date include music from Sir James MacMillan, Janet Beat, Martyn Brabbins, Jay Capperauld and Errollyn Wallen.

James MacMillan Canon for Two Violas
Errollyn Wallen (World Premiere)
Jay Capperauld Between the Lines (World Premiere)
Janet Beat Phantasm (World Premiere)

Series 1 Episode 2: Carmen

Myleene Klass and Errollyn Wallen examine the stories at the heart of Georges Bizet's enduring but controversial opera 'Carmen', featuring special performances from Leeds-based opera company Opera North.

Category
Documentary / Music
Original air date
2023-10-02

Series 1 Episode 2: Carmen

Myleene Klass and Errollyn Wallen examine the stories at the heart of Georges Bizet's enduring but controversial opera 'Carmen', featuring special performances from Leeds-based opera company Opera North.

PROGRAMME: Brahms, Mahler, Wallen, Weill

WORLD PREMIERE OF NIGHT THOUGHTS, a special Leeds Lieder commission and world premier from Errollyn Wallen, which nods to Sarah’s student days when she performed jazz in bars and clubs, and displays the soulful depth of the outstanding mezzo’s voice

DeVos Performance Hall

MARCELO LEHNINGER conductor | STERLING ELLIOTT cello
ART BATTLE GRAND RAPIDS
ERNIE STRICKLAND
TEVYONA KNOX
CARLOS SAMPSON
AMANDA FAIRBANKS

ERROLLYN WALLEN Mighty River
ELGAR Cello Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2, “London”

Devos Performance Hall, Grand Rapids, MI

MARCELO LEHNINGER conductor | STERLING ELLIOTT cello

ERROLLYN WALLEN Mighty River
ELGAR Cello Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2, “London”

Domen, skibby, Denmark

Program:

Arvo Pärt: Summa, for strygeorkester (1977)

Errollyn Wallen: NNENNA (2018)

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (1936)

W. A. Mozart: Koncert for klarinet i A-dur K. 622 (1791)
- Solist Madeleine F. Nilsen

Medvirkende: Aarhus Kammerorkester og dirigent Magnus Plejdrup

EPISODE 1: The Four Seasons

Myleene Klass and composer Errollyn Wallen explore the secrets behind 'The Four Seasons', Antonio Vivaldi's set of violin concertos, featuring a special performance from Welsh orchestra Sinfonia Cymru.

An interdisciplinary performance and installation conceived by Diana Wege.

Mark Shapiro will conduct original music by Errollyn Wallen and Jeff beal, performed by a choir and piano.
World premiere of this arrangement.

VENUE:

St Mark's in the Bowery
131 East 10th STreet
New York
NY 10003
USA

NYO's 5 star Proms performance, conducted by Carlos Prieto and featuring soprano Masaban Cecilia Rangashwana who sung the premiere of Errollyn's specially composed encore The Whole World, commissioned specially by NYO.

PALAVER STRINGS with special guest – NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor

The acclaimed Portland-based, musician-led chamber orchestra returns to Screen Door as ensemble in residence. Featuring Grammy nominated tenor Nicholas Phan, this program explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen. Spanning genres, eras, and movements, A Change is Gonna Come provokes conversation, confronts our past and present, and celebrates the act of protest as one of our most precious rights.

Palaver Strings has distinguished itself for their sense of musical adventure and eagerness to engage with music and collaborators from many different genres and traditions. Described by the Boston Globe as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” tenor Nicholas Phan is praised for his charismatic stage presence and natural musicianship. He performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies.

PROGRAM

ROBERTA SLAVITT, ALFRED HAYES, MALVINA REYNOLDS Freedom is a Constant Struggle/I dreamed I saw Joe Hill/It isn’t nice (arrangement by DOMENIC SALERNI)

HARRY BURLEIGH, LANGSTON HUGHES Lovely, Dark & Lonely One (arrangement by IAN GOTTLIEB)

ABEL MEEROPOL/BILLIE HOLIDAY Strange Fruit

AKENYA SEYMOUR Fear the Lamb

BOB DYLAN Blowin’ in the Wind (arrangement by DOMENIC SALERNI)

JONI MITCHELL, PHIL OCHS, PETE SEEGER Fiddle and the Drum, What Are You Fighting For?, Where Have all the Flowers Gone? (arrangement by DOMENIC SALERNI)

ERROLLYN WALLEN Songs for the People - World Premiere

SAM COOKE A Change is Gonna Come

Honorary Concert Sponsor: Robert Johnston

Errollyn Wallen Songs for the People were co-commissioned by Palaver Strings and the Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.

A special surprise work composed specially for Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and National Youth Orchestra.
Conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto

Organist Peter Holder will give the world premiere of VARIATIONS ON A DANCE at a concert at Westminster Abbey 7pm on Tuesday 1st August at Westminster Abbey to mark 30 years of the Eric Thompson Trust which commissioned the work.

• Saturday, July 29, 6 p.m.: A Prelude Concert by TMC musicians (part of the Festival of Contemporary Music) featuring works by Sally Beamish ("Caprington Doubles,") Kaija Saariaho ("New Gates,") and Errollyn Wallen ("NNENNA."), plus the world premiere of "small tenderness," a commissioned work by Ania Vu (an 2022 alumna of the TMC).

Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood

This short work is dedicated to the memory of my friend, and legendary filmmaker, Mike Hodges.

Violinist Madeleine Mitchell has inspired new works from a variety of composers, many of whom share connections of various kinds. ‘Conversations’ sit at the heart of an album in which four pianist composers join Mitchell to perform their works. The music ranges from Alan Rawsthorne’s quicksilver 1958 Violin Sonata, heard here in a BBC broadcast to honour Mitchell’s two-decade partnership with the late Andrew Ball, to Thea Musgrave’s vivid Colloquy. The sequence of atmospheric, communicative pieces from contemporary composers explores natural phenomena, songs of freedom, telephonic frustration and a pas de deux love duet.

6.00PM
ST JOHN'S WATERLOO
ERROLLYN WALLEN Fondant
HANNAH KENDALL Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama
AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON Creation
AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON Dreamcity
ELEANOR ALBERGA Sun Warrior
Sian Edwards

pre-concert talk at 5.15pm

Errollyn Wallen
This Cultural Life

Errollyn Wallen is one of Britain's most acclaimed and widely performed contemporary composers. Born in Belize and brought up in north London, she was first ever woman to win a Ivor Novello Award for a body of work, and the first ever black woman to have a composition played at the BBC Proms. Errollyn has written 22 operas, as well as orchestral, chamber and choral works which are performed around the world. She was commissioned to write pieces to commemorate the Queen’s Golden and Diamond jubilees, and for the opening of the 2012 London Paralympic Games. She lives and works in a lighthouse in the far north of Scotland.

Errollyn tells John Wilson how, after to moving to London from Belize with her parents at a young age, she was brought up by an aunt and uncle in Tottenham. An early love of ballet led her to discover the music of Chopin, and she started to learn the piano at home. She describes the huge influence of Bach on her compositions, but also how her work is influenced by a wide range of music, from avant garde composers to jazz and funk.

Producer: Edwina Pitman

Errollyn Wallen
This Cultural Life

Errollyn Wallen is one of Britain's most acclaimed and widely performed contemporary composers. Born in Belize and brought up in north London, she was first ever woman to win a Ivor Novello Award for a body of work, and the first ever black woman to have a composition played at the BBC Proms. Errollyn has written 22 operas, as well as orchestral, chamber and choral works which are performed around the world. She was commissioned to write pieces to commemorate the Queen’s Golden and Diamond jubilees, and for the opening of the 2012 London Paralympic Games. She lives and works in a lighthouse in the far north of Scotland.

Errollyn tells John Wilson how, after to moving to London from Belize with her parents at a young age, she was brought up by an aunt and uncle in Tottenham. An early love of ballet led her to discover the music of Chopin, and she started to learn the piano at home. She describes the huge influence of Bach on her compositions, but also how her work is influenced by a wide range of music, from avant garde composers to jazz and funk.

Producer: Edwina Pitman

Immaculate Conception Parish, Cranston, RI, US
programme includes Mozart, Schubert, de Falla, Dvorak, Wallen and Currier

Part of Primrose Artist Series
at Brigham Young University, USA

Imitations


This concert will be live streamed on this website in HD. The video will be available on demand for 90 days after the date of the broadcast. Watch live here

Programme
Errollyn Wallen Mighty River*
Edward Elgar Cello Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
Performers
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Bradley Wilson conductor*
Christopher Warren-Green conductor
Matthew Sharp cello

Two performances — at 10am & 8pm

Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

Location
300 Ottawa NW, Suite 100
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

616.454.9451

Programme:

Errollyn Wallen, Mighty River

Grieg, Concerto, Piano, op.16, A minor

Sibelius, Finlandia op.26

Conductor
Natalia Luis-Bassa

Soloist
Ethan David Loch

6 April 2023 / 19:30 at Perth Concert Hall


Standard £18

TICKET OFFER £12 until 2 March use 'SPRING23' at Box Office to redeem

Senior Citizens, wheelchair users £12

Under 26, Unwaged, Mature Student £6

Book Tickets

Ruby and Huw perform from their sensational new album Echo

Re:Sound is made up of nine micro-operas that explore London, Nottingham and Manchester from the point of view of people who have experienced homelessness. At workshops run by Streetwise Opera, participants come up with ideas, storylines and lyrics that peer beneath the surface of the city. They collaborate with composers, choreographers and digital animators to spin these inspirations into bold new musical works. Members of Streetwise Opera are joined on stage by singers from renowned choral ensemble The Sixteen, and the BBC Concert Orchestra.



The evening opens with Bernstein’s boisterous ode to Times Square, from his musical On the Town, which follows three sailors on a brief leave in New York. The musical’s familiar New York theme crops up in this symphonic panorama.

Errollyn Wallen’s Mighty River winds its way through the first half of the concert, a profound meditation on the history of the slave trade which links the movement of water with the human instinct to be free.

ONYX was composed in the memory of Mike Hodges, legendary British filmmaker and friend.

Victoria Hall
11 South Grove
Highgate
London N6 6BS

British soprano Nadine Benjamin brings together a wealth of stories told through song and spoken word, celebrating the lived experiences of black and mixed-race composers. British contributions include Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s haunting cycle Songs of Sun and Shade and his daughter Avril’s Sleeping and Waking, plus newer music by Errollyn Wallen and Hannah Kendall. There are vivid historic songs and works by living composers from across America, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and Sweden.

Woven between the songs, Michael Harper reads poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Maya Angelou and many more. This is a project with collaboration at its heart – co-curated by writer and broadcaster Elizabeth de Brito, Benjamin and Harper are joined by pianist Caroline Jaya-Ratnam to explore the joys of living, learning and moving through adversity.

Errollyn Wallen's WHEN THE WET WIND SINGS will be released on NYCGB Digital on February 10th

Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent

Old St Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco

A new carol celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Salisbury Carol commemorates Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

World premiere at Carols at Candlelight service

Symphony Center, Chicago

Nine Lessons and Carols

Cello Recital by Louise McMonagle
Friday, December 2, 2022
7:00 PM 8:40 PM
Scottish Arts Club
24 Rutland SquareEdinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2BW

TiMBREL was commissioned by King's College chapel for the 1441 Foundation event. It will be sung at Evensong and at the 1441 Foundation Dinner

Set 1
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les Rossignols
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a flower
Helen Grime (arr. Pashley), Council Offices
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace' and ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets and Attente

Set 2
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach, to sleep on it (selected movements)
Mira Calix, DMe
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Heah

Set 3
Anon (arr. Pashley), Luchas para bailar
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree

Errollyn Wallen's new Nunc dimittis broadcast live from Westminster Abbey

Errollyn Wallen was commissioned by Pamela Carrington to compose this new work for the Choir of Westminster of Abbey and its music director, James O'Donnell

Music for All Souls

Woolsey Hall (WOOL) see map(link is external)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511

WATCH ONLINE at 7pm UK time

Event description:
Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Music for All Souls will be conducted by David Hill

The Program
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Missa “O quam gloriosum”
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my redeemer liveth, Standing as I do before God, Aurea luce
Herbert Howells: Hymn to St. Cecilia
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia
Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth
Herbert Howells: Requiem

Getting there:

197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, about 200 yards from Piccadilly Circu

Errollyn Wallen Piano Concerto (world première)
soloist Rebeca Omordia
conductor Mike Seal

An electrifying programme of world premières. The two piano concertos were delayed from their originally planned debuts in 2020. Angela Elizabeth Slater's originally scheduled to debut in December 2020 and Errollyn Wallen's for summer 2020, when the world ended up being locked down.

WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2022 | 19:30H
Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid - Symphonic Hall

Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Op. 109
Tradicional: Scarborough Fair (arr. Stephen Hough)
Caroline Shaw: Shenandoah
Jean Sibelius: Was it a Dream?, Op. 37 Núm.4
Ernest Bloch: From Jewish Life
Prayer
Supplication
Jewish Song
Antonín Dvorák: Quatre peces romàntiques
Allegro moderato
Allegro maestoso
Allegro appassionato
Larghetto
Mitja part

Errollyn Wallen: Dervish
Cesar Camargo Matiano: Cristal (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Violeta Parra: Gracias a la vida (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango (arr. Kathryn Stott)
Astor Piazzolla: Soledad
Astor Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango

Sounds Divine — A transcendent concert experience (Berkeley)

Sunday, October 23, 2022
7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Berkeley Piano Club
2724 Haste Street Berkeley, CA, 94704 United States (map)

With distinctive and exciting young composers emerging every year, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has a proud history of developing new talent. Hebrides Ensemble marks RCS@175 by celebrating staff composers that have fostered a golden age in Scottish composition.

The programme includes music by Stuart MacRae as featured on our most recent Delphian Records release, alongside works by Emily Doolittle, Tom David Wilson, and Visiting Professors Kate Moore and Errollyn Wallen. In keeping with our longstanding role of supporting emerging talent, we will also give the first performance of a new work from composition student Mingdu Li.

VENUE: Rubin Museum of Art

DETAILS: Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa curates a program of the Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen, joined by mezzo-sopranos Lucia Bradford and Leah Wool. The composer has transcribed two unpublished songs specifically for this concert.

NYFOS Next offers guest musicians a chance to collaborate with NYFOS to bring new music to intimate venues.

Tickets are available for $25 ($10 student tickets)

Orchestra Vitae give the London premiere of FONDANT, originally commissioned by Royal Northern Sinfonia in 2018.

Programme to include:

Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento

Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a flower

Tom Coult, I Find Planets

Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan and Elevation I. The Ellipse

Errollyn Wallen, gun gun gun

The Hermes Experiment, Bass Piece

Ayanna Witter Johnson, Draw the Line

Emily Hall (arr. Pashley), Befalling

Oliver Leith, Uh Huh, Yeah

Laura van der Heijden cello; Tom Poster piano

Errollyn Wallen, Jacquet de la Guerre, Rachmaninov and Walker
Information

Booking information
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Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Conductor
Clemens Schuldt

Soloists
Ruby Hughes
soprano

Eugene Hye-Knudsen
cello

Works
H. Rott
Hamlet opening

J. Brahms
Ophelia-lieder (arr. Reimann)

E. Wallen
“By Gis and by Saint Charity” (premiere)

NW Gade
Hamlet opening

D. Shostakovich
Romance over a poem by Alexander Blok

PI Tchaikovsky
Hamlet fantasy opening

R. Schumann
Herzeleid (arr. Errollyn Wallen)

H. Berlioz
The Death of Ophelie

Location:
Symphonic Hall
Musikhuset Aarhus

Conductor
Clemens Schuldt

Soloists
Ruby Hughes
soprano

Eugene Hye-Knudsen
cello

Works
H. Rott
Hamlet opening

J. Brahms
Ophelia-lieder (arr. Reimann)

E. Wallen
“By Gis and by Saint Charity” (premiere)

NW Gade
Hamlet opening

D. Shostakovich
Romance over a poem by Alexander Blok

PI Tchaikovsky
Hamlet fantasy opening

R. Schumann
Herzeleid (arr. Errollyn Wallen)

H. Berlioz
The Death of Ophelie

Location:
Symphonic Hall
Musikhuset Aarhus

This concert will be broadcast by Radio 3

Holy Cross Parish Church,
Cowbridge

Bradshaw Hall, Birmingham


Joseph Horovitz
Lady Macbeth – a scena(9 mins)
Ethel Smyth
Lieder, Op. 4(15 mins)
Rebecca Clarke
The Seal Man(6 mins)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Four Last Songs(9 mins)
Errollyn Wallen
Lady Super Spy Adventurer(4 mins)
BBC commission: world premiere
Performers
Claire Barnett-Jones
mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper
piano
Composers
Joseph Horovitz
Ethel Smyth
Rebecca Clarke
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Errollyn Wallen

About This Event
The sheer wealth and beauty of English poetry has been a continual inspiration to British composers. Since winning the Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones has become one of the most sought-after voices on both the operatic stage and the concert platform – with one critic writing that she ‘stole the stage at every movement’ in English National Opera’s recent The Cunning Little Vixen. Today, with pianist Simon Lepper, she celebrates the songs of 2022 Proms featured composers Vaughan Williams and Ethel Smyth, brings all her theatrical flair to a Shakespeare sketch by the late Joseph Horovitz, and sings something entirely new from Proms favourite Errollyn Wallen.

There will be no interval

Image: Claire Barnett-Jones

PART OF
Proms 2022Proms At

Livestream of Philharmonia Baroque's concert from Yale

8pm EDT

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts
702 S 5th St
Brainerd, MN 56401

GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL:Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6, No. 1
ERROLLYN WALLEN:Concerto Grosso
PIETRO LOCATELLI:Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 11
ARCANGELO CORELLI:Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4
SAMUEL CARL ADAMS:Movements (for us and them)
GEORG MUFFAT:Concerto Grosso No. 2 in G minor
A ‘concerto grosso’ pits a group of soloists against a larger ensemble, moving between cooperation and contrast. Artistic advisor and baroque violinist Chloe Fedor leads a baroque ensemble in early examples of these concertos, partnered with modern takes on the genre by Errollyn Wallen and Samuel Carl Adams.



Lakes Area Music Festival
STRINGS
US & THEM
Saturday, August 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 7 at 2 p.m.
Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts
CHLOE FEDOR, LEADER / VIOLIN SOLOIST
CHRISTIAN REIF, CONDUCTOR

Philharmonia’s Composer-in-Residence, Tarik O’Regan, and his good friend and colleague, composer, Errollyn Wallen CBE, have come together to create a collaborative music drama for Tim and PBO, provisionally entitled Ancestor. In a dynamically unique approach, using the programme’s themes of contradiction, duality, and interdependence as catalysts, each composer will set text that the other has adapted from original sources. Together, Errollyn and Tarik will create an interlinked monodrama in two short, contrasting scenes which will explore and interrogate the creation myth, highlighting the conflicts and connections found therein. This perfectly “mixed” programme highlights PBO at its best – virtuosic interpretations of the old with reflections from the new that speak to the past, present and future.

Royal Northern Sinfonia
Lucienne Renaudin Vary – trumpet

Malcolm Arnold Sinfonietta no.2
Finzi Romance
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Errollyn Wallen Photography
Haydn Symphony no.93 in D major

A captivating trumpeter joins the Royal Northern Sinfonia for a sunny-spirited concerto at the heart of an eclectic programme that also takes in the lyricism of two English romantics, a Bach-inspired work by Errollyn Wallen, and one of Haydn’s most rousing and witty symphonies.

St Peter’s Church, Norton
Langton Rd, Norton
Malton, YO17 9AE

Philharmonia Baroque

Tim Mead countertenor
Richard Egarr director

Handel Overture to Orlando
Handel Al lampo dell’armi from Giulio Cesare
Handel Chiudetevi miei lumi from Admeto
Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, op.6 no.4
Errollyn Wallen and Tarik O’Regan Ancestor WORLD PREMIERE
Handel Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, op.6 no.7
Handel Father of Heaven from Judas Maccabaeus
Handel Se in fiorito ameno prato from Giulio Cesare

Philharmonia Baroque’s commitment to both old and new music is reflected in a striking programme built around connections and contrasts. Leading countertenor Tim Mead explores Handel’s genius for characterisation in four vividly contrasted arias, while the orchestra show the stunning expressive range of his concertos. At the centre of the programme, Tarik O’Regan and Errollyn Wallen continue the theme of dualities in a co-composed work exploring the myth of creation.

Errollyn Wallen
Five Postcards
Simple and Flowing
Furious
Intense-Faster, with a little swagger
Soulfully
Vigorous
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Anton Miller (fiðla), Rita Porfiris (víóla)
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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Tríó fyrir flautu, selló og píanó í g-moll ópus 63
Allegro moderato
Scherzo. Allegro Vivace
Andante espressivo
Finale. Allegro
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Berglind Stefánsdóttir (flauta), Sigurgeir Agnarsson (selló),
Nína Margrét Grímsdóttir (píanó)

HLÉ

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Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
Strengjasextett í A-dúr ópus 48
Allegro moderato
Dumka (Elegie). Poco allegretto
Furiant. Presto
Finale. Tema con variazoni
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Anton Miller (fiðla), Laura Liu (fiðla),
Rita Porfiris (víóla), Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir (víóla),
Sigurgeir Agnarsson (selló), Sigurður Bjarki Gunnarsson (selló)

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Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough YO11 2BT

Ben Parry conductor

Bob Chilcott Weather Report
Cecilia McDowall Photo 51
John Casken Uncertain Sea
Raymond Murray Shafer Sun
Undine Smith Moore Mother to Son
Vaughan Williams No longer mourn for me
Vaughan Williams Echo’s lament
Roxanna Panufnik Let all the world
Errollyn Wallen When the wet wind sings YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
Joanna and Alexander Forbes L’Estrange Green Love

A captivating programme on the theme of ‘environment’ from the UK’s flagship youth choir, much praised for both the opportunities it brings to talented young singers and for the polish and vitality of its performances. Including a stonking 40-part piece by Errollyn Wallen, music by anniversary composer Vaughan Williams, a piece specially written for the choir describing the coast and fishing industry in the North East, and an uplifting final number about doing our bit for the environment.

Tickets: £16, £5 (UNDER 18)

A fresh take on Schubert's Schwanengesang, fused with a modern response composed by Errollyn Wallen for singers Ema Nikolovska and Julien Van Mellaerts. Jonathan Ware at the piano.


VENUE: unltd concert club @ taratata

Errollyn Wallen unravels more stories of how classical music fused with local musical traditions across the British Commonwealth, speaking to acclaimed South African double-bassist Leon Bosch, Canadian indigenous composers Cris Derksen and T. Patrick Carrabre, and the Jamaican musical polymath Peter Ashbourne, who works across the genres of classical, jazz and reggae.

Errollyn explores the remarkable hybrid musical identities at play in the nations of South Africa and Jamaica - and tells the fascinating and complex story of how the music of Canada's indigenous communities has been celebrated by a new generation of composers and performers seeking to capture their cultural "in-between"-ness in sound.

Errollyn is also joined by the music historians Stephen Banfield and Wayne Weaver, as well as the Thai-American cellist and researcher Jon Silpayamanant, to explore challenging questions around our reception (and sometimes neglect) of this music in a postcolonial era. In celebrating and championing this repertoire - how much do we also need to confront ideas of musical colonialism? What does this all tell us about how musical culture was disseminated - and sometimes imposed - across the British Empire? And what should we make of it today?

An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 3
Producer: Steven Rajam

FREE

Sun 3 Jul, 12.30pm
Part of New Music Biennial
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Gigs

Schwanengesang and Errollyn Wallen
3 July, 3pm

BBC New Generation Artists Ema Nikolovska and Kunal Lahiry present Schwanengesang alongside the world premiere of The Lake, composed by Errollyn Wallen as a reflection and response to Schubert’s final collection of songs.

Miller Outdoor Theatre 6000 Hermann Park Drive.


PROGRAM

COPLAND Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
E. WALLEN Mighty River
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

ARTISTS

Christian Reif
conductor

London International Festival of Early Music 2021

The Early Music Show BBC Radio 3

Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from the 2021 London International Festival of Early Music, including Angel Water, commissioned by LIFEM for viol player Liam Byrne and lutenist Jonas Nordberg.

ANGEL WATERS, commissioned by LIFEM2021 for Jonas Nordberg (Theorbo) and Liam Byron (Viola da Gamba) will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's The New Music Show.

Programme:

Fritz Kreisler Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice
Freya Waley-Cohen Caffeine
Grazyna Bacewicz Caprice no. 2
Roxanna Panufnik Hora Bessarabia
Mark O’Connor Caprice no. 1
Variations on Paganini 24th Caprice – by Andra Patterson, Laura Reid, Emily Howard, Sally Beamish, Stuart MacRae, Adrian Sutton, Alexandra Harwood, Piers Hellawell, James Joslin, Robin Haigh, Heloise Werner, Seonaid Aitken
Errollyn Wallen For Airi
Paganini Caprice no. 13

Concertgebouw: Main Hall
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1071 LN, Netherlands

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Ifé

Encounter between Africa and Western classics

Singer Angélique Kidjo sings about creation myths from Benin in her native language of Yoruba to music by minimal composer Philip Glass. An evening that brings music styles and cultures together.

Philip Glass concluded his collaboration with Angelique Kidjo with the words: ‘Angelique, together we have built a bridge that no one has walked on before’.

Ifé is also the title of the evening programme surrounding this ground-breaking work in which many more musical boundaries are crossed. In Concerto Grosso, composer Errollyn Wallen, born in Belize, mixes the old and the new: from baroque to jazz and minimal. And especially for this evening, Tunde Yegede, kora player, cellist and composer with Nigerian roots, has written a work for West African kora and string orchestra in which he will perform as a soloist himself.

The Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa has collaborated with Philip Glass before. She will be performing in different parts this evening, from Ifé to Young Apollo by composer Benjamin Britten - a familiar name at the Holland Festival. Kidjo will end the evening singing. She will perform a classic song by Erik Satie, sing her favourite French chansons in new arrangements and finish with some of her own most popular songs.

The Paradis Files
Radio 3 in Concert

Graeae Theatre Company and members of the BBC Concert Orchestra combine in Errollyn Wallen's new chamber opera The Paradis Files. Composer and pianist Maria Theresia von Paradis was a pupil of Salieri and friend of Mozart and graced the aristocratic salons of 18th-century Vienna. As she concentrates on her performing and teaching career, we uncover a dark secret from her youth as she battles against all those who insist on trying to cure her of her blindness.

Librettists Nicola Werenowska and Selina Mills
Composer Errollyn Wallen
Directed by Jenny Sealey

The Paradis Files
Maria Theresia von Paradis... Bethan Langford
Gerda, The Maid / Soprano Gossip... Ella Taylor
Hilde, The Baroness von Paradis... Maureen Brathwaite
Salieri / A Doctor / Tenor Gossip... Ben Thapa
Joseph, The Baron von Paradis / A Doctor / Baritone Gossip... Omar Ebrahim
A Doctor/ Alto Gossip... Andee-Louise Hypolite

Members of the BBC Concert Orchestra:
Violin – Charles Mutter
Double bass – Dominic Worsley
Percussion – James Gambold
Accordion – Milos Milivojevic
Piano – Jelena Marakova
Conductor Andrea Brown

Composed in 2000, The World's Weather opens yet another door into the fascinating sound world of Errollyn Wallen.

PROGRAMME:

Errollyn Wallen The World’s Weather (World Premiere)

James MacMillan Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

Elgar Symphony No.1*

Sunday 05 June | 12:00pmDuration: Approximately 70 minutes with no interval Venue:

Jubilee Hall, Crabbe Street, Aldeburgh, IP15 5BN Price: £20, £15, Under 30s half price. A limited number of £10 tickets will be available from 29 January.

Programme includes works by WALLEN, COULT, WITTER-JOHNSON

Tom Service with specially recorded performances by the Nash Ensemble, Apartment House and Theatre of Voices in works by Julian Anderson, Helmut Oehring and John Luther Adams. We continue our celebration of the New Music Biennial with a recording of Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River from 2017, and we mark the 70th birthday of composer Gerald Barry with a broadcast of his Viola Concerto with soloist Lawrence Power. Plus a new recording of Rebecca Saunders and more from last month's Tectonics, featuring the music of Janet Beat.

Errollyn Wallen, The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Based on a Poem by Langston Hughes)
Anton Miller and Amy Sims, violins, Rita Porfiris, viola, Elisa Kohanski, cello

Arthur Foote, A Night Piece
Anthony Trionfo, flute, Anton Miller and Amy Sims, violins, Rita Porfiris, viola, Elisa Kohanski, cello

George Masso, June Dance
Anton Miller and Amy Sims, violins, Rita Porfiris, viola, Elisa Kohanski, cello, John M. Pellegrino, bass

Gioachino Rossini, Duetto
I. Allegro
II. Andante molto
III. Allegro
Trevor Handy, cello, John M. Pellegrino, bass

Douglas Hill, A Place for Hawks
I. All earth is still…
II. Suddenly the great bird…
III. Hawk on the Wind
IV. When in April…
Lori Phillips, mezzo-soprano, Kevin Owen, French horn, Anton Miller and Amy Sims, violins, Rita Porfiris, viola, Elisa Kohanski, cello, John M. Pellegrino, bass

Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield 7.15pm

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.30 in E Op.109 (22’)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat Op.110 (21’)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor Op.111 (28’)
WALLEN The Negro Speaks of Rivers (6’)
FRANCES-HOAD Invocation (4′)
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata Op.102 No.2 (20’)

To open the evening, Tim Horton performs Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas: intimate and personal, endlessly complex, monuments of this unique musical mind.

This is followed by a new string version of Wallen’s celebrated choral setting of Langston Hughes’ iconic poem and Frances-Hoad’s Invocation for cello and piano, based on Melancholy, a painting by Edvard Munch. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s Cello Sonata Op.102 No.2.

Please note the change to the previously advertised programme for this concert.
We apologise for any disappointment this may cause.

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival runs 13–21 May 2022

Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London

Leap into spring with The Bach Choir for this concert of British-inspired choral music past and present.This diverse programme, featuring four female composers, shines a light on some truly fresh and inspirational works by Ivor Novello winner Cecilia McDowall, Errollyn Wallen CBE, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger. We also showcase two beloved works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was a former singer and musical director of The Bach Choir and Benjamin Britten who has conducted The Bach Choir.
In the beautiful and intimate setting of Holy Trinity Church Sloane Square, David Hill MBE conducts soloists Alison Ponsford-Hill, Helen Charlston, Hugo Hymas and Jonathan Brown with Philip Scriven at the organ and The Bach Choir in this perfect concert to awaken your ears with the sounds and songs of spring.
‘The real star of this show was The Bach Choir itself, and the standard of choral singing throughout was impressively high’ Arts Desk
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SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE

SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE

RWCMD CARDIFF

RWCMD, Cardiff

St James's Church Sussex Gardens, London

Ensemble 97 perform Wallen's NNENNA & Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals.

Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA

HORSE CROSS, PERTH

Bradley Symphony Center, Milwaukee, WI

HORSE CROSS, PERTH

Steimetz Hall, Orlando, FL

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Notre Dame IN

HULL TRUCK THEATRE

Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, IN

Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, VA

St Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston

A programme of English works.

This story is loosely inspired by the novel Incomparable World by S. I. Martin, who serves as Historical Consultant for this project.

Juba Freeman: Curtis Bannister
Amelia Alumond: Flora Wall
Quamino Dolly: Damien Geter

Saturday, April 23, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Friday, April 29, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, May 1, 2022 @ 3pm
Studebaker Theater
410 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

Production Sponsor: Virginia Tobiason
Commission Sponsor: The Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

The Mercury, Colchester

Alys Stephens Center - Jemison Concert Hall, Birmingham, AL

In "Feeling Her Way', Sonia Boyce presents an ambitious exhibition incorporating mixed-media and video installations created in collaboration with five Black female musicians: Errollyn Wallen, Tanita Tikaram, Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha andSofia Jernberg.

British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2022

7.30pm Coventry Cathedral

FREE

New Music Biennial is a three-day festival giving you the chance to hear music across a range of genres, from classical and chamber opera, to jazz, folk and electronic. If you've never tried some of these genres before, now's your chance - and with each venue a short walk from each other, you can enjoy a range of new music in a short space of time.

An American Songbook
University of Nebraska at Lincoln: Kimball Recital Hall (Map)
Lincoln, Nebraska
Saturday, 23 April 2022 - 2:00 PM
Presenter: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Burleigh: Southland Sketches for Violin and Piano
Artists: Madeline Rogers (Piano); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Arranger: Rita Porfiris
Wallen: Lavinia
Artist: Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Perkinson: Lament for Viola and Piano
Artists: Madeline Rogers (Piano); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Perrault: "Brother Malcolm" for viola and piano
Artists: Madeline Rogers (Piano); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Bunch: Three American Folk Hymn Settings for Two Violas
Artists: Rita Porfiris (Viola); Clark Potter (Viola)
Coleridge-Taylor: Five Negro Melodies Op. 59 for violin, viola, piano
Artists: Edward Polochick (Piano); Anton Miller (Violin); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Arranger: Rita Porfiris

The Stables, Milton Keynes

Newlin Hall, Danville, KY

THE STABLES, MILTON KEYNES

Peace Center for the Performing Arts, Greenville, SC

Erin Wagner, Mezzo-Soprano
Shawn Chang, Piano

Program
Works by Edie Hill, Fauré, Ravel, Shawn Chang, Errollyn Wallen, and Mahler

Wallis Power, cello
Adam Hickox, conductor

27th DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Notre Dame IN

LEICESTER CURVE, Leicester

The Great Hall
The Arts Centre
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DE

Beethoven
Symffoni Rhif 5
Symphony No. 5
Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung
Errollyn Wallen
This Frame Is Part Of
The Painting
Mezzo Soprano:
Stephanie Windsor-Lewis
TOCYNNAU/TICKETS
£2.00-£12.00
CANOLFAN Y CELFYDDYDAU
ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE
BOX OFFICE:
01970 62 32 32
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk

LEICESTER CURVE

From Errolyn Wallen’s ballet Horseplay exploring the anthropomorphic facets of one of our species’ most enduring companion animals, to the existential crisis at the heart of a foundational religious story in Darren Bloom’s Eve, this concert is ultimately about relationships and the human condition. To conclude, we celebrate Prof. Richard Causton’s 50th birthday with his The Persistence of Memory, a rich and beautiful tapestry of instrumental colours and handmade percussion that chronicles an illness-induced experience of time decaying whilst on travels in India as young man. Causton’s The Persistence of Memory, written in his early twenties, awoke audiences to a new and powerful voice in contemporary music and we are thrilled to present it here in Cambridge for the first time.

Errollyn Wallen – Horseplay
Richard Causton – The Persistence of Memory
Richard Causton – Threnody
Darren Bloom – Eve

Ticket & Booking Information
£12; Students and under-18s: £3
ADC Ticketing 01223 300085

Date:
Wednesday, 16 March, 2022 - 19:30
Event location:
West Road Concert Hall

St James's Church, Sussex Gardens
Sussex Gardens
London
W2 3UD

Programme includes both

Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals & NNENNA.

VENUE: Guildhall School of Music.

Come and go as you please over the course of an afternoon, as we fill our tranquil Conservatory with the piano works of women reclaiming their rightful place in history, as well as highlighting the voices of today with world premieres by Arlene Sierra and Errollyn Wallen.

FROM 6pm:

Rebecca Saunders Shadow (2013)

Madeleine Dring 'Blue Air' and 'Brown Study' from Colour Suite (1963)

Maria Szymanowska Nocturne in B-flat Major (1819)

Adelaide Pereira da Silva Valse Choro No 2 (1965)

Margaret Bonds Troubled Water (1967)

Amy Beach Dreaming (1892)

Elena Firsova Hymn to Spring (1993)

Errollyn Wallen Movements 1 and 2 from Piano Concerto (two piano arrangement) (world premiere, 2021

What will it take for it to be the norm to hear music by women in concerts? Sarah Cahill, Errollyn Wallen and Arlene Sierra share their thoughts in a panel discussion chaired by Helen Wallace.

Why do the majority of standard concerts still feature music solely composed by men? Should the focus be on commissioning new music by women, or bringing previous compositions into standard repertoire? Following today’s mighty, day-long celebration in our Conservatory, pianist Sarah Cahill's shown that there’s a bountiful supply of extraordinary music by women.

Following the world premieres of their piano works earlier in the day, Arlene Sierra and Errollyn Wallen (composer of 2021 Barbican-commissioned opera Dido’s Ghost), reflect with Cahill on The Future is Female, reframing the past and advocating for the voices of women through the centuries. Leading the discussion is champion of women’s music Helen Wallace, Artistic Director of King’s Place and curator of their Venus Unwrapped series.

NONESUCH ORCHESTRA at St Michael and All Angels Church, London W4 7.30pm

13 compositions for string orchestra written by young composers. Two monumental Concerto Grossi; one by Handel and the other written in 2008 by Errollyn Wallen

The Hermes Experiment
SUN 20 FEB 5pm | The Hearn Recital Room

Anne Denholm harp
Oliver Pashley clarinet
Marianne Schofield double bass
Heloise Werner soprano / co-director
Hanna Grzeskiewicz co-director

Programme

Tom Coult I Find Planets
Laura Moody Rilke Songs
Ayanna Witter-Johnson Draw the Line
Raymond Yiu Written at Sunset
Eleanor Alberga Deep Blue Sea
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner) Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado The Linden Tree
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley) The Almond Tree

Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor
Except 'Credo', interspersed with pieces by Weir, Dunphy, Panufnik, Herbert, Wallen, Bax and Davies.
Judith Weir
Love Bade Me Welcome
Melissa Dunphy
Mourning Into Dancing
Roxanna Panufnik
Child Of Heaven
Philip Herbert
Agnus Dei
Errollyn Wallen
PACE
Arnold Bax
This Worldes Joie
Henry Walford Davies
God Be in My Head
Howard Goodall
Unconditional Love: A Cantata Of Gratitude And Remembrance
European premiere

11.00am - 12.15pm RNCM Concert Hall

RNCM BRASS BAND
Justine Gormley, piano
David Thornton, conductor


REVIVALS I
Four Minute Mile (1991) Judith Bingham
Piano Concerto (1990) Bill Connor (b. 1949)
Chrome (1997) Errollyn Wallen
Scottish Dances Malcolm Arnold (arr. Farr)

This thrilling performance is conducted by conducted by John Butt

Soloists:

Tomo Keller, Violin
Elizabeth Burley, Piano
Lynda Houghton, Bass


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From Australia to Hollywood, Andrew Bain has taken the world by storm as Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soloist on the latest Star Wars soundtracks. In his NWS debut, Bain joins NWS Horn and String Fellows for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s delightful Quintet and quartets by Max Reger and Michael Tippett. Errollyn Wallen considers Horseplay one of her favorite works due to its vitality and contrast, writing that “it’s the perfect work to be performed by young people.” Franz Joseph Haydn’s string quartet legacy is solidified in the Op. 76 collection, his last complete set.

NEW WORLD CENTRE, MIAMI

Donald Macleod and Errollyn Wallen discuss the role of the composer in today’s world.

Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has been called a “renaissance woman of contemporary music”. She’s a remarkably versatile and prolific composer, pianist and songwriter and one of our most in-demand musical voices today. She was the first black woman to have a piece performed at the Proms. In 1998, her music opened the 2012 Paralympic games. She's even been performed in space, aboard Nasa’s STS115 mission. Wallen writes in a kaleidoscopic range of styles; her music constantly crosses and re-crosses musical boundaries and it brims over with a sense of adventure and delight. All this week, Donald Macleod gets to know Errollyn as she dials into his studio from her Scottish lighthouse where she retreats to concentrate on her work.

Today, Donald and Errollyn talk about some of her most public and meaningful commissions, marking large events and anniversaries, as well as pieces dedicated to people close to her. She speaks about the importance of a composer being “in the world” and her role in reflecting society through music. We hear about her daily life as a composer, and how she feels the world of classical music is changing for the future.

Jerusalem, our clouded hills
Golda Schultz, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

gun gun gun
Heloise Werner, soprano
Hermes Experiment

Mighty River
Orchestra X

Cello Concerto (excerpt)
Matthew Sharp, cello
Orchestra X
Nicholas Kok, conductor

See That I am God
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker

EPISODE 4 of 5

4. Songbook
Composer of the WeekErrollyn Wallen Episode 4 of 5

Donald Macleod chats to composer Errollyn Wallen about her songwriting, an area of her output that she says is central to who she is.

Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has been called a “renaissance woman of contemporary music”. She’s a remarkably versatile and prolific composer, pianist and songwriter and one of our most in-demand musical voices today. She was the first black woman to have a piece performed at the Proms. In 1998, her music opened the 2012 Paralympic games. She's even been performed in space, aboard Nasa’s STS115 mission. Wallen writes in a kaleidoscopic range of styles; her music constantly crosses and re-crosses musical boundaries and it brims over with a sense of adventure and delight. All this week, Donald Macleod gets to know Errollyn as she dials into his studio from her Scottish lighthouse where she retreats to concentrate on her work.

Today, Donald asks Errollyn her award-winning songs and how they fit into her creative life. She tells him that songs are like writing a diary, and that she sees songwriting and composing as two sides of the same coin. She shares her diverse influences, from Greek myths to adverts in windows, and we hear the amazing story of how her songs were launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle.

What’s Up Doc?
Errollyn Wallen, piano

Daedalus
Errollyn Wallen, voice
Brodsky Quartet

Five Postcards
Anton Miller, violin
Rita Porfiris, viola

About Here; Tree; Of Crumpling Rocks
Errollyn Wallen, voice and piano

Are you worried about the rising cost of funerals? (i. beehive; iv. guru)
Patricia Rozario, soprano
The Continuum Ensemble

Peace on Earth
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
George Hill, treble
Dónal McCann, organ
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker

EPISODE 3 of 5

3. Finding New Feet
Composer of the WeekErrollyn Wallen Episode 3 of 5

Donald Macleod and composer Errollyn Wallen discuss her breakthrough into the musical world.

Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has been called “the renaissance woman of contemporary music”. She’s a remarkably versatile and prolific composer, pianist and songwriter and one of our most in-demand musical voices today. She was the first black woman to have a piece performed at the Proms. In 1998, her music opened the 2012 Paralympic games. She's even been performed in space, aboard Nasa’s STS115 mission. Wallen writes in a kaleidoscopic range of styles; her music constantly crosses and re-crosses musical boundaries and it brims over with a sense of adventure and delight. All this week, Donald Macleod gets to know Errollyn as she dials into his studio from her Scottish lighthouse where she retreats to concentrate on her work.

Today, we hear from Errollyn about her colourful early career in London as a keyboardist in bands, and writing music for a TV gameshow. She and Donald also discuss the challenge of breaking through as a serious composer. Plus, we hear about life in Errollyn’s lighthouse, and how she ended up living there.

TIGER
John Butt, organ

Lines
Errollyn Wallen,piano

It all depends on you (excerpt)
Fiona Bates, soprano
Andrew Sparling, clarinet
Martin Robertson, clarinet

The Girl in My Alphabet
Errollyn Wallen, piano
Douglas Finch, piano

Three Ships (IV – Some Trouble)
Tom Kerstens, guitar

Red (Homage to Rodrigo)
Tom Kerstens, guitar

Greenwich Variations
Errollyn Wallen, piano

Produced by Amelia Parker

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Release date: 05 January 2022
59 minutes

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Donald Macleod speaks to Errollyn Wallen about her lifelong love of dance.

Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has been called a “renaissance woman of contemporary music”. She’s a remarkably versatile and prolific composer, pianist and songwriter and one of our most in-demand musical voices today. She was the first black woman to have a piece performed at the Proms. In 1998, her music opened the 2012 Paralympic games. She's even been performed in space, aboard Nasa’s STS115 mission. Wallen writes in a kaleidoscopic range of styles; her music constantly crosses and re-crosses musical boundaries and it brims over with a sense of adventure and delight. All this week, Donald Macleod gets to know Errollyn as she dials into his studio from her Scottish lighthouse where she retreats to concentrate on her work.

Today, Errollyn shares stories about her other first love, dance, and talks to Donald about her time spent training in New York at the Harlem Dance Theatre. We hear how she came to decide that music was actually the right path for her but how dance remains an important presence in her life today, from writing ballets to hitting her step count targets with some kitchen disco.

Woogie Boogie
Rachel Barton-Pine, violin
Matthew Hagle, piano

Dervish
Matthew Sharp, cello
Dominic Harlan, piano

Concerto Grosso
Tai Murray, violin
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
Chi-chi Nwanoku, double bass
Chineke! Orchestra
Anthony Parnther, conductor

Horseplay (1st and 2nd movements)
Continuum Ensemble
Philip Headlam, conductor

In Our Lifetime
Mike Henry, baritone
Ensemble X

Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker

EPISODE 1 out of 5

Donald Macleod chats to composer Errollyn Wallen about her heritage and musical upbringing.

Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen has been called a “renaissance woman of contemporary music”. She’s a remarkably versatile and prolific composer, pianist and songwriter and one of our most in-demand musical voices today. She was the first black woman to have a piece performed at the Proms. In 1998, her music opened the 2012 Paralympic games. She's even been performed in space, aboard Nasa’s STS115 mission. Wallen writes in a kaleidoscopic range of styles; her music constantly crosses and re-crosses musical boundaries and it brims over with a sense of adventure and delight. All this week, Donald Macleod gets to know Errollyn as she dials into his studio from her Scottish lighthouse where she retreats to concentrate on her work.

Today, we hear about Errollyn’s deep connection to Belize and her childhood musical memories. She was brought up in London to a soundtrack of Ella Fitzgerald and calypso. When she discovered the piano, she had to be begged not to practice. Errollyn's first ever composition was written for her sisters to sing walking to primary school, and family has since been a thread through her work.

I Wouldn’t Normally Say
Errollyn Wallen, piano

It’s a Quarter to Nine
Hull Music Hub Massed Choir
Errollyn Wallen, piano
Charles McDougall, conductor

Percussion Concerto (2nd movement – excerpt)
Colin Currie, percussion
National Youth Orchestra
Paul Daniel, conductor

Louis’ Loops
Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano

Photography
Ensemble X
Nicholas Kok, conductor

NNENNA
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft, conductor

My Granny Sarah
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Ben Parry, conductor

Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker

Peace on Earth has been specially translated into Catalan for this festive occasion:

Orfeó Català (Pablo Larraz, principal conductor)
Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana (Xavier Puig, principal conductor)
Cor Jove de l’Orfeó Català (Esteve Nabona, conductor)
Cor de Noies de l’Orfeó Català (Buia Reixach i Feixes, conductor)
Cor Infantil de l’Orfeó Català (Glòria Coma i Pedrals, conductor)
Cor Mitjans de l’Orfeó Català (Glòria Fernàndez, conductor)
Cor Petits de l’Orfeó Català (Mercè Pi, conductor)

Simon Halsey, artistic director of the choirs

PROGRAM

Tradicional Concert of Sant Esteve
The Boxing Day Concert is one of the oldest Christmas traditions in Europe. Started in 1913, it brings together all the ensembles in the Orfeó Català choral family. Recently, it has been customary to present a joint programme on the context of a given theme, which this year is peace around the world. As usual, there will be plenty of Christmas carol arrangements and premières by guest composers, such as Marc Timón.

VENUE CHAPEL ROYAL, DUBLIN CASTLE

THE MUSIC OF FRIENDS EVENING

Katherine Hunka, Cellist
Dearbhla Brosnan, Pianist

RBC Symphonic Brass (conducted by Amos Miller)

Adolphus Hailstork American Fanfare
Errollyn Wallen Pace
Stuart MacRae Ultima Thule (world première)
William Walton (arr. Eric Crees) Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Interval

Youth Brass 2000 (conducted by Chris Jeans)

Etienne Crausaz Balkan Dance
Albert Ketèlby (arr. Howard Snell) The Clock with the Dresden Figures-
Percussion Feature
Louis Prima (arr. Dan Price) Sing Sing Sing-

RBC Brass Band (conducted by Ian Porthouse)

Stan Nieuwhuis A Buoy (conducted by MMus 2 Brass Band conducting student Matt Ludford-King)
Richard Saucedo (arr Richards) American Barndance (conducted by MMus1 Brass Band conducting student Alan Gifford)
Robert Simpson Volcano

Joint item:
Ryan Linham Staycation Celebration (non-virtual première)

The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire

FREE EVENT

Madeleine Mitchell – violin
Nigel Clayton – piano

Lili Boulanger – Nocturne
Prokofiev – Cinq Melodies No 1 & 3
DvoÅ™ák – Sonatina, Op 100
Amy Beach – Romance
Errollyn Wallen – Sojourner Truth (for Madeleine Mitchell, 2021)
Bridge – Morceau caractéristique

American composer Amy Beach wrote her Romance in 1893, the same year as DvoÅ™ák’s Sonatine was written when he was living in America. Prokofiev wrote his Five Melodies as songs without words for a tour in California with soprano, later arranging them for violin and piano when he was back in Paris – the home of Lili Boulanger, who died tragically young. Sojourner Truth was an extraordinary American abolitionist and Errollyn Wallen’s piece for Madeleine Mitchell is based on the spiritual O’er the Crossing – premiered on International Women’s Day 2021. The programme is completed by a virtuosic piece by Frank Bridge, discovered in manuscript a century after the premiere by Madeleine and recorded on her album Violin Songs along with the Boulanger and Prokofiev pieces.

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Commissioned by the London International Festival of Early Music for Liam Byrne (viola da gamba) and Jonas Nordberg (theorbo) who will give the world premiere.

Vaughan williams Piano Quintet in C minor
Ignatius Sancho Minuets 4 and 11 arr for septet
Errollyn Wallen NNENNA
Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor, Op 2

The Chineke! Chamber Ensemble make their Kings Place debut with a programme including works by composers of Black and ethnically diverse heritage who lived and worked in London.

A new film made on location in London and Scotlanf with Matt Belcher for UCLA’s Tune In online festival

This concert will be attended by newly appointed RWCMD Fellow, Errollyn Wallen

Wallen: Mighty River
Mozart: Clarinet COncerto
Tschaikowsky: Symphony No 4

Join one of the UK’s leading children and youth choirs for a performance of songs inspired by climate change. Directed by Patrick Barrett, members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Junior Chorus will perform a selection of Green Songs by Bob Chilcott and a trio of Assembly Songs by Errollyn Wallen, Shruthi Rajasekar and Claire McCue, specially commissioned for COP26.

Two performances:

11 - 11.30 am. & 3 - 30 pm

Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Kathryn Stott (piano) perform a recital which will include DERVISH

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott give a recital in Japan which includes the Japanese premiere of DERVISH

Cambridge University Orchestra
Jonathan Bloxham conducts Wallen, Stravinsky and Mozart Saturday 23rd October 7:30 pm

The Cambridge University Orchestra (CUO), the university’s flagship orchestra, returns to West Road Concert Hall for its first performance since February 2020. The orchestra is joined by British conductor, Jonathan Bloxham, who makes his second appearance with CUO, having last performed with the orchestra in October 2019.

Mighty River, written by Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen, explores the history of the British slave trade, with spirituals and gospel music forming the core of this composition. Errollyn has recently been appointed Wort Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, Cambridge, and we are delighted to be working with her on this piece.


Errollyn Wallen – Mighty River
Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
Mozart – Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

LAVINIA was commissioned by the Riot Ensemble for violist Stephen Upshaw.

The Edinburgh Festival Chorus has provided the backbone of the International Festival’s choral programme for more than 50 years. Though the pandemic months have been a particularly challenging time for all singing, the Festival Chorus returns as a small chamber choir under Chorus Director Aidan Oliver in a concert of varied music by Tallis, Britten, Holst, Errollyn Wallen and Abbie Betinis.

The choir will sing Errollyn Wallen's Rice and Beans —and Plantain Too! from her song collection MAP— Songs for Children Everywhere, commissioned by Aldeburgh Music.

Sarah Daramy-Williams (Violin)
Natalia Senior-Brown (Viola)

Programme to include:

Errollyn Wallen - Five Postcards
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A new opera incorporating Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Libretto by Wesley Stace

John Butt (Conductor)
Frederic Wake-Walker (Director)
Anna Jones (Designer)

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Golda Schultz - Dido/Anna
Matthew Brook - Aeneas
Nardus Williams - Belinda
Allison Cook - Lavinia
Henry Waddington - Sorcerer

Dunedin Consort
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Co-commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival, Dunedin Consort and Mahogany Opera, the Barbican Centre, Buxton International Festival and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
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Errollyn Wallen explores and challenges the legacy of John Powell (1882-1963) – a once-celebrated composer whose racist politics scarred the lives of generations of Americans.

A new opera incorporating Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Sung in English with side-titles.

Libretto by Wesley Stace

John Butt (Conductor)
Frederic Wake-Walker (Director)
Anna Jones (Designer)
Ben Pickersgill (Lighting Designer)

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Idunnu Muench - Dido/Anna
Matthew Brook - Aeneas
Nardus Williams - Belinda
Jessica Gillingwater - Spirit/Lavinia
Tim Dickinson Sorcerer/Elymas

Dunedin Consort
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Buxton International Festival co-commissioned production in partnership with the Barbican Centre, Mahogany Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, and Dunedin Consort.
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Héloïse Werner (Soprano)
Kit Downes (Organ)
Colin Alexander (Cello)

Each performer will offer around twenty minutes of their own solo works, written since March 2020, and the programme will also feature five short text pieces written especially for the occasion by Errollyn Wallen, Shiva Feshareki, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole and Love Ssega.
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Spitalfields Music Festival 2021

Errollyn Wallen - Festival Curator

Simon Halsey CBE (Conductor)
London Symphony Chorus
City of London Sinfonia
Chris Glynn (Piano)

Programme to include:

ERROLLYN WALLEN After Winter *WORLD PREMIERE
HOWARD GOODALL Never Forget
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“Wake Up! Wake Up! A Choral Tapestry Honoring Our Earth” is a a free outdoor concert, with an 18-voice professional choir directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather. The program will feature a preview of choral excerpts of music composed by the internationally acclaimed British composer Errollyn Wallen and five time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal, with a libretto by Diana Wege, from Earth Requiem (2020), a newly commissioned four-movement symphony that is one part of a multidisciplinary art project by the artist Diana Wege, titled Earth Requiem. More information may be found by visiting www.earthrequiem.org, or contacting earthrequiem.project@gmail.com.
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Works performed by the students of RNCM, followed by a discussion with Jessica Duchen.

Greenwich Variations
Giulia Contaldo (Piano)

Red (Homage to Rodrigo)
Rafael Onyett (Guitar)

Dervish
Sinead O’Halloran (Cello), Maria Luc (Piano)

Another America: Air
Philip O’Connor (Tenor), Maria Luc (Piano)

The Errollyn Wallen Songbook
Eleni Georgiou, Amy Webber (Voice), Misha Tyshkul (Piano)

Daedalus
Amy Webber (Voice), TBC (Piano)
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LATE NIGHT LIEDER with The Hermes Experiment

Programme to include:

Errollyn Wallen gun, gun, gun
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Programme to include:

ERROLLYN WALLEN - Nnenna

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French and English Music for Choir and Organ

The BBC Singers and their former chief conductor, David Hill, are joined by organist Thomas Trotter for a concert of English and French Choral music. Bookending the concert are two of the great works for choir and organ; Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle and Gerald Finzi's Lo, the full final sacrifice. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Recorded in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London, on Friday 4 June 2021.

LOUIS VIERNE Messe Solennelle
MAURICE DURUFLE Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Op 7
IJOHN GARDNER Five Dances
GHISLAINE RECCE-TRAPP The great life eternal
ERROLLYN WALLEN Pace
JUDITH BINGHAM/SAMUEL WESLEY The darkness is no darkness/Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
GERALD FINZI Lo, the full final sacrifice

Listen on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 8 June and for 30 days on BBC Sounds.

The story of Dido and Aeneas didn’t end with Dido’s death. Errollyn Wallen takes the story forward, interweaving a full performance of Purcell’s great tragedy with her imaginative new partner-piece.

‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate' sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t quite as easy as that, and some memories have a destiny of their own. Set several years after the Carthaginian queen’s death, Dido’s Ghost finds Dido’s sister Anna abandoned on the shores of Aeneas’s new kingdom, igniting a murderous jealously in Aeneas’s wife Lavinia – and as events play out, its characters confront a past that refuses to fade.

Errollyn Wallen’s new opera, based on a tale by Roman poet Ovid, embraces and complements Purcell’s original, which is performed in its entirety as the centrepiece of a drama that is both old and new. Performed by the period instruments of the Dunedin Consort, past blurs into present and memory becomes emotion in this ambitious and poignant new commission.

A Joffrey original in collaboration with choreographer Cathy Marston, "Bertha" explores the psyche of Bertha Mason, the love-scorned antagonist of the novel "Jane Eyre."

Music by Errollyn Wallen
Score Performed By:
Sara Trickey (Violin)
Rosie Bergonzi (Handpan)

Direction: Cathy Marston, Tim Whalen
Choreography/Story: Cathy Marston
Film Featuring Joffrey Artists:
Christine Rocas - Bertha
Dylan Gutierrez - Rochester
Jeraldine Mendoza - Jane Eyre/Young Bertha

Rehearsal Director: Suzanne Lopez
Costumes: Patrick Kinmonth
Produced By: The Joffrey Ballet, Big Foot Media
Music Recorded and Mixed By: Gerry O’Riordan, at The Soundhouse Studios, London

This online concert showcases two pieces of contrasting 20th-century ballet music.

This concert opens with a work by Errollyn Wallen, Horseplay. Gramophone praised Wallen as: “an influential figure and inspirational role model … a leading figure in today’s classical music world.”

Horseplay is a ballet in four movements. Each movement has its own colour and energy, inspired by the idea of a horse as archetype.

AVAILABLE TO WATCH ONLINE FOR 30 DAYS FROM 22 APRIL
PROGRAMME
Matthew Locke: Suite from The Tempest (selected movements)

Purcell (arr.Britten): Chacony in G minor

Purcell: Suite from the Fairy Queen (selected movements)

Errollyn Wallen: Concerto Grosso, Movements I & IV

Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat major

With

John Butt, conductor & harpsichord

How to watch the online concert

You can watch the performance from 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April and it will be available to watch as many times as you like for the following 30 days. Your access details will be sent to you 24 hours before the performance starts, with full details of how to watch the concert.

Performers

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

John Butt, director

INTRODUCTION & PROGRAMME
We’re joined by renowned conductor, harpsichordist and scholar John Butt for this programme of Baroque and Baroque-inspired music.

Locke Suite from The Tempest (selected movements)

Purcell (arr.Britten) Chacony in G minor

Purcell Suite from the Fairy Queen (selected movements)

Errollyn Wallen Concerto Grosso, Movements I & IV

Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat major

London Chamber Ensemble/director Madeleine Mitchell, violin



Rebecca Clarke - Piano Trio

Judith Weir - Atlantic Drift duo for 2 violins

Helen Grime - Miniatures for oboe & piano 2005

Judith Weir - The Bagpiper's String Trio

Cheryl Frances-Hoad - Invocation for cello & piano

Thea Musgrave - Colloquy (violin & piano

Ruth Gipps - Prelude for bass clarinet

Errollyn Wallen - Sojourner Truth for Madeleine Mitchell violin & piano World Premiere, supported by the RVW Trust

Grace Williams - Suite for Nine Instruments



Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Joseph Spooner (cello), Sophia Rahman (piano – Clarke, Wallen, Grime, Hoad) and Ian Pace (piano – Musgrave, Grace Williams), David Aspin (viola), Gordon Mackay (violin), Lynda Houghton (double bass), Peter Cigleris (clarinet & bass clarinet), Nancy Ruffer (flute), Alec Harmon (oboe), Bruce Nockles (trumpet)



On International Women’s Day violinist Madeleine Mitchell has put together a fantastic range of music celebrating some of the finest British female composers of the past 100 years with the London Chamber Ensemble which she founded and directs. The concert includes one of Grace Williams’ rarely performed large chamber work of 1934, recorded by them for Naxos: “Passionate and persuasive advocacy… a powerful musical personality, well served by some gripping interpretations. More please.” (Gramophone), works by Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir and the world premiere of a new violin piece for Mitchell by Errollyn Wallen, supported by the RVW Trust. Rebecca Clarke’s romantic piano trio of 1921, the birth year of Ruth Gipps (BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week March 2021), is juxtaposed with Helen Grime’s Miniatures of 2005, performed by her former Royal College of Music oboe teacher, John Anderson’s former student. The powerful Colloquy of 1960 by nonagenarian Thea Musgrave, winner of the 2020 South Bank Sky Arts Award, contrasts with the searing lyricism of Cheryl-Frances Hoad’s short piece of 1999.

This concert will be available to view from 8pm on Monday 8th March through to 8pm on Thursday 8th April 2021.

Supported by The Ambache Trust

Errollyn Wallen NNENNA

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Blue/s Form I Plain Blue/s

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Blue/s Form II Just Blue/s

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Blue/s Form III Jettin' Blue/s

Trevor Weston Bop

Ignatius Sancho Minuets 4 and 11

Florence B Price Two Folksongs in Counterpoint - Drink to me with thine own eyes and Shortnin' Bread

Joseph Bologne Quartet No 3 in G minor

Matthew Evan Taylor Let's Meet at the Horizon

Valerie Coleman Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

Based on an original idea by Errollyn Wallen who is presenting the programme, CLASSICAL COMMONWEALTH for Radio 3, unravels how classical music fused with local musical traditions across the British Commonwealth, speaking to acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta and others.

This Sunday Feature is available to listen after broadcast

Errollyn Wallen Mighty River
Wagner (orch Henze) Wesendonck-Lieder
DvoÅ™ák Symphony No9 From the New World

James Lowe Conductor
Karen Cargill Mezzo-soprano

Errollyn Wallen’s Mighty River is dedicated to her great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, who was likely to have been a slave. ‘It is an innate human instinct to be free,’ she says, ‘just as it is a law of nature that the river should rush headlong to the sea.’ This gripping orchestral work from one of Britain’s most original living composers makes an unforgettable impact. Accompanied by DvoÅ™ák’s stunning New World Symphony and Wagner’s sensuous love songs performed by Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill.

Please note, this concert has had a change in conductor, guest artist and programme since first advertised.

BBC RADIO AFTERNOON CONCERT

Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in a survey of carols from the present day, live from Temple Church in London. Includes Errollyn Wallen's
PEACE ON EARTH

Welcome to Spitalfields Festival: At Home.
This December we are delighted to be bringing an eclectic range of music to you at home.

We’ve put together a day of events, three of the four, curated by Errollyn, including a re-imagined Black music and history walking tour, with exclusive performances by Chineke! Junior Orchestra – fresh from their Britain’s Got Talent success – alongside author and historian S.I.Martin. We’re also excited to present eight world premieres from female composers; a very special performance of Baroque masterworks by Dunedin Consort; and an informal late-night Song Club, featuring composer Errollyn Wallen, singer-songwriter Katie Melua, and friends.
Do join us!

3pm — 10pm

Mansfieldmas: An Evening of Music and Words

Mansfield honorary fellows Errollyn Wallen, the world-famous composer whose Jerusalem featured in the 2020 Last Night of the Proms, and award-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri lead an evening of music and words with contributions from the Mansfield creative community.



When: 4 December, 5.30pm

Where: This event will take place online

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122985907159

Mansfield Public Talks are free to attend and all are welcome.

London Sound Gallery Festival, produced by The Gesualdo Six

Online broadcast, 5pm

The Hermes Experiment connect creative beginnings to nostalgic farewells and inevitable endings: works by Emily Hall, Errollyn Wallen and Alex Mills are performed alongside arrangements of pieces by Anna Meredith and Peter Maxwell Davies. Two new graphic scores by Anna Disley-Simpson and Jacob Fitzgerald, selected from a recent open ‘Call for Scores’, will be premiered by The Hermes Experiment and The Gesualdo Six in a collaborative performance.

Performed by National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 | 8PM PDT
What’s New and H.I.P. with Tarik and Rick —
Episode 3 feat. Errollyn Wallen C.B.E.

This week brings episode #3 of PBO's What's New and H.I.P. with Tarik and Rick featuring Music Director Richard Egarr and Artistic Partner Tarik O'Regan in conversation with British composer Errollyn Wallen, CBE. Richard, Tarik and Errollyn will chat candidly about all kinds of things musically-minded, their own experiences as composers, and Errollyn's life from her home in a lighthouse on the northern tip of Scotland!

Among her many accomplishments, Errollyn founded Ensemble X, whose motto is 'We don’t break down barriers in music… we don’t see any’ reflecting her genuine, free-spirited approach and eclectic musicianship. She has been commissioned by venerable institutions from the BBC to the Royal Opera House and has performed her songs internationally. Enormously versatile, Errollyn Wallen’s song Daedalus appears alongside songs by Björk, Sting, Elvis Costello and Meredith Monk on the Brodsky Quartet’s CD Moodswings. And in 2007, Errollyn was awarded an MBE for her services to music in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2007, and a CBE in 2020.

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RCS String Dept presents three generations of composers: the celebrated Adagio for Strings put Samuel Barber (1910 -81) at the forefront of C20th music. We dedicate this performance to our dear friend Rinat Ibragimov. US-born Glasgow-based Thomas Wilson (1927 – 2001) wrote his St Kentigern Suite for Glasgow Cathedral’s 850th Anniversary in 1986. His distinctive voice has become a vital part of Scotland’s musical landscape. British composer Errollyn Wallen’s new arrangement (dedicated to the Windrush generation) of Blake’s Jerusalem featured in The Last Night of the Proms. Her powerful Cello Concerto was written for Matthew Sharpe (who featured in last year’s RCS Cello Festival) and first performed in 2008. It’s a rare chance to hear this extraordinary piece performed by prize-winning cellist Madelyn Kowalski.

THOMAS WILSON
St Kentigern Suite for Strings

SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings

ERROLLYN WALLEN
Cello Concerto

Ulster Orchestra (4/4)
Afternoon Concert

The week of music making from the Ulster Orchestra concludes with a live concert from Belfast featuring music by Errollyn Wallen, Mozart and Brahms. And Tom McKinney rounds up the week with the orchestra performing Mendelssohn's symphonic tribute to the Scots.

Introduced by John Toal.

Errollyn Wallen: Photography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn

Eric Lu (piano)
Ulster Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A "Scottish"

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan

Timothy Lines director
Nicolò Foron conductor*

Eleanor Alberga On a Bat's Back I Do Fly*
Errollyn Wallen Horseplay

Tim Lines and Nicolò Foron lead RCM New Perspectives in a programme of contemporary music by Belize-born Errollyn Wallen and Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga.

Two contemporary pieces by renowned female composers performed for an on-demand event, featuring RCM New Perspectives.

RCM New Perspectives, directed by British conductor Timothy Lines and led here by RCM conductor Nicolò Foron, perform a programme of contemporary music by two female composers revered for innovative composition. Belize-born composer and RCM professor Errollyn Wallen’s Horseplay, written in 1998, is a dance piece of four movements, offering jazz tones and striking horn duos. Eleonor Alberga’s On a Bat’s Back I do Fly, a chamber piece written in 2000, takes its title from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and revels in its virtuosity.

Recorded live in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall on 15 October at the Royal College of Music in London, this is an on-demand broadcast event.

Encounter open to all with three of the most outstanding composers of the contemporary scene who will alternate with lectures, plays and videos. At the end, a round table on themes concerning contemporary music proposed by the composition students of the “A. Casella" Conservatory of Music. “Comporre Oggi” will also host in this edition the presentation of the volume by Renzo Cresti, Musica Presente, Lim. 2019. Zoom meetings with Italian-English-Italian language translation available.

First broadcast Friday October 16th 2020BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ryan Bancroft

Available to listen for 24 days from 21.10.20

gun gun gun performed by Hermes Experiment

gun gun gun is a setting of a Terese Svoboda poem and is
scored for harp, clarinet, voice and double bass.
This unique work was commissioned by Hermes Experiment and features on their debut album HERE WE ARE out 24 July 2020 on Delphian Records featuring works by Errollyn Wallen, Emily Hall, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Freya Waley-Cohen, Joel Rust, Oliver Leith, Anna Meredith, Josephine Stephenson and Giles Swayne.

Album was released in July and is Gramophone's pick of the month.

St Martin-in-the-Fields
Choral Evensong

Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with members of the BBC Singers.

Introit: My Eyes for beauty pine (Elizabeth Coxhead/Thomas Coxhead)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms 65, 66, 67 (Wills, Maxim, Grindle)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49 vv.1-7
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Second Lesson: 1 John 1 vv.1-10
Anthem: Behold, O God our defender (John Scott) – to mark the fifth anniversary of the composer’s death
Prayer anthem: God be in my head (David Hill)
Voluntary: Triptych (Errollyn Wallen)

Nicholas Chalmers (Conductor)
Rachel Mahon (Organist)

A stranger has arrived in town. He’s lost everyone and everything. But things are about to change.

Produced and commissioned by Streetwise Opera in partnership with Middlesbrough Town Hall and Ryedale Festival.

Roderick Williams and Streetwise Opera join forces to stage an immersive retelling of Schubert’s Winter Journey with original words and music by Errollyn Wallen.

A stranger has arrived in town. He’s lost everyone and everything. But things are about to change.

Produced and commissioned by Streetwise Opera in partnership with Middlesbrough Town Hall and Ryedale Festival.

Roderick Williams and Streetwise Opera join forces to stage an immersive retelling of Schubert’s Winter Journey with original words and music by Errollyn Wallen.

An exciting commission from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for a piano concerto for Rebeca Ormodia
To be premiered at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Last year Errollyn composed MY SOUL, a song for Kelly Hall-Tompkins' MUSIC KITCHEN in the USA and the work will receive a further performance at Zandel Hall, part of Carnegie Hall.

MUSIC KITCHEN takes classical music to the homeless in a two way exchange and the words of Errollyn's song ( for mezzo soprano and string quartet) are set to the words of an anonymous audience member.

In Focus: Errollyn Wallen

The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall are delighted to present a day of music to celebrate the work of internationally renowned Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen.

Errollyn will perform with the legendary composer and pianist, Jean-Michel Bernard.

Programme
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Antonio Vivaldi
Spring from The Four Seasons
Astor Piazzolla
Spring from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Jennifer Higdon
Machine
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Allegro from Symphony No.1
Errollyn Wallen
Mighty River
Leó Weiner
Presto from Hungarian Folk Dances Suite for Orchestra Op.18
Quincy Jones
Soul Bossa Nova
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 10 in E minor (2nd mvt)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Sea Birds
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
Max Richter
Recomposed - Spring 1

Errollyn will be coaching the students before the Focus Day — a day long performance of her works — at Royal Northern College of Music.

World premiere of a setting of ROUNDEL by Vera Brittain

performed by J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Shannonn McGinnis, piano

Music from Five Centuries

5pm College Chapel of Mansfield College Oxford

Join Errollyn in an end of year celebration of the abundant — and unexpected talents of staff, students and alumni.

The celebrated Chineke! Ensemble joined by Artistic Director Rebeca Omordia at the piano, will close the 2019 season of The African Concert Series with a thrilling performance of music by Black British Composers including NNENNA by Errollyn Wallen and Nonet by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Tickets £10 on the door. Please book in advance to guarantee your seat.

The programme will also include works by Laura Snowden, Effy & Litha Efthymiou, Anna Meredith and Charlotte Bray.

The music will be performed by Amanda Cook, VIDA Guitar Quartet, Guilia Ballare, the G Plus Ensemble and Laura Snowden.

Music and Wellbeing - The BBC Singers perform a selection of repertoire focusing on the power of music as a tool to unlock memories for those suffering from dementia. Composer and conductor Alexander L’Estrange talks to Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart about his wife’s illness, and how a playlist of music associated with her life has been an important part of coping with dementia. The BBC Singers also perform a selection of music inspired and written by composers and poets with a personal connection to dementia.
from the Teatro Massimo, Palermo.

Presented by Penny Gore

One Equal Music – Ben Parry
Simple Gifts – Traditional
Take on Me – A-Ha
Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Elton John
At Last – Etta James
BBC Singers
Alexander L’Estrange (conductor)

Errollyn Wallen: My Granny Sarah
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Repertoire

Ligeti: 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet
Spohr: Nonet in F, Op.31
Interval
Errollyn Wallen: NNENNA for septet
DvoÅ™ák: Serenade in D minor for wind, Op.44

Featuring: Deborah Frances-White and Jayde Adams plus guests including American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and composer Errollyn Wallen
Date & Time: Saturday 14 September - 2:30pm

Location: Beit Hall, Imperial College Union, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB

CAIC’s Collaborative Works Festival is an annual vocal chamber music festival. DAEDALUS, performed by tenor Anthony Roth Contanzo and pianist Lisa Kaplan, will close the entire festival.

CAIC's 2019 Collaborative Works Festival, The Living, will explore the incredibly diverse array of today's leading composers, and the work these composers are doing in the field of song.

​The closing concert of the Festival will be a held on September 8, 2019 at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse featuring a program of songs written by international composers, including Kaija Saariaho, Jonathan Dove, Nicolas Bacri and Errollyn Wallen.

www.caichicago.org

Conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya

Featuring performances by Sarah-Jane Lewis, John Mills, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Errollyn Wallen

PROGRAMME INCLUDES: Errollyn Wallen, Bartok, Irving Berlin, Claude-Miche Schonberg, Guty Razaz, Milad Yousufi

In a rare solo performance Errollyn Wallen will perform songs from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook and piano works.
There will be a Q & A after the concert.


VENUE:

Christ Church

Christchurch Street West

Frome

BA11 1EH

World premiere of a new work in homage to the painter Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

CONCERT SOULD OUT

Coal Drops Yard
King's Cross N1C 4DQ

World premiere in NYC of MY SOUL for the Kelly Hall-Tompkins' 'Forgotten Voices' project — part of Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul initiative

Strauss (arr Hasenöhrl) Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!
Errollyn Wallen Nnenna
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370
Saint-Saëns Septet in E flat, Op. 65
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor, Op. 2

Albany Empire, Deptford SE8

WORKS BY SOOSAN LOLAVAR, DOMINIC MURCOTT, LAURA JURD, ERROLLYN WALLEN, SAM HAYDEN, DEIDRE GRIBBIN,
AMIR SADEGH KONJANI

Errollyn has been appointed co-curator for Spitalfields Festival 2020 and 2021. This year the festival runs from June 25 — 28. Watch this space.

Watch this space! The festival will run from June 25 - 28

Part of The Last Word, a festival where words come alive.

HUH /hʌ,hə/ exclamation
used in questions to invite agreement
used in anger or surprise

Seamlessly crossing R&B, classical music, poetry and song, HUH brings together some of today’s most powerful voices and artists from the UK’s contemporary music and spoken word scenes.

Errollyn Wallen’s haunting song In Our Lifetime, inspired by Nelson Mandela’s prison release, and poet Salena Godden’s unflinching essay Shade from The Good Immigrant, set the evening’s themes of movement and identity.

Next up, Sophia Thakur and Kieron Rennie with spoken word as you’ve never heard, or seen, before. From Lyrix Organix’s UnFold EP2, influences from jazz and contemporary classical come together with the UK’s most exciting young poets, strings, percussion and emerging visual artists.

Completing the show, new collaborations featuring the mesmerising Ayanna Witter-Johnson & Solomon O.B, and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman & Salena Godden, combine rap, soulful vocals, classical music and electronica.

Produced by Jasmin Kent Rodgman Created with initial support from the London Symphony Orchestra and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

In Wigmore "Lates" series
More details TBC

The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall are delighted to present a day of music to celebrate the work of internationally renowned Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen.

Thursday 2 May

Recital Hall

Birmingham Record Company Day
Birmingham Record Company Day launches an exciting partnership between BRC and the internationally acclaimed NMC Records with this special one day festival featuring performances and works from many of the artists associated with the label.

NEXT MUSICIANS AND THALLEIN ENSEMBLE WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN (PIANO)
Errollyn Wallen piano
Thallein Ensemble
NEXT Musicians

Andrew Toovey Music for the painter Jack Smith
Andrew Hamilton Waldo
Genevieve Murphy Your Blue, my Purple
Kirsty Devaney Root
Fumiko Miyachi Hedge
Errollyn Wallen Greenwich Variations
Joe Cutler Slippery Music

As part of this special day of events, the inaugural cohort of NEXT musicians join our Thallein Ensemble for a programme of new and recent works from composers, who are either tutors or graduates of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This event will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now.

Thursday 2 May
Birmingham Record Company Day
Birmingham Record Company Day launches an exciting partnership between BRC and the internationally acclaimed NMC Records with this special one day festival featuring performances and works from many of the artists associated with the label.

£5 individual event, £20 day ticket

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BRC Late
An all-star line-up brings today’s one day festival celebrating Birmingham Record Company to a close. This event features sets from Conservatoire tutors and graduates including Khyam Allami, Luke Deane, Anna Palmer, Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen.

London premiere of GOLD SATURDAY

FULL DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED...

but expect a whirlwind of music!

The Canadian-British flautist, Lisa Nelsen, performs music for solo flute by composers from Britain, America, Canada and France, in preparation for her new solo CD album. This includes works written specially for her, and works written by composers with whom she has worked closely, as well as classics of the solo flute repertoire. "A flautist and a half" - The Times

The orchestra marks the first Stephen Lawrence Day, held on the anniversary of the teenager's murder in 1993, with a concert of works by BME composers.

Chineke! Orchestra performs Errollyn Wallen's upbeat Concerto Grosso for piano, violin and double bass and Philip Herbert's Elegy, written in memory of Lawrence and featuring an orchestra of 18 string players – one for each year of his life.

Joel Thompson’s emotive work for male chorus and orchestra Seven Last Words of the Unarmed is a setting of the final words of American victims of murder, either at the hands of the police or private individuals.

Beethoven's joyous Eighth Symphony rounds off the evening.

The concert coincides with the release of a new CD on the NMC Recordings label featuring works by seven BME composers, including Wallen and Herbert, whom Chineke! has championed over the past three years.

Performers

Chineke! Orchestra
Repertoire

Errollyn Wallen: Concerto grosso
Philip Herbert: Elegy: In memoriam - Stephen Lawrence
Joel Thompson: 7 Last Words of the Unarmed for male chorus, strings & piano
Interval
Beethoven: Symphony No.8
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We are delighted to invite you to join us for a concert of song, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 13.00h on 8 March 2019, International Women’s Day. This concert forms part of Venus Blazing: Trinity Laban’s year-long celebration of music by female composers.


The concert covers over a century of British song, including rarities and treasures by Maude Valerie White, Liza Lehmann, Amy Woodforde-Finden and Rebecca Clarke. It concludes with recent pieces by Trinity Laban composition professors Soosan Lolavar and Errollyn Wallen. Performers are Trinity Laban students, alumni and staff, including a special guest appearance by Errollyn Wallen herself. There is also one surprise number, to be revealed on the day itself…


The concert has been programmed by Sophie Fuller, Co-Artistic Director of Venus Blazing. During the concert, Sophie Fuller will be in conversation with BBC presenter Sarah Walker, bringing to life the stories behind the composition of the featured works.



If you would like to attend, please email Sophie Harvey at s.harvey@trinitylaban.ac.uk.



Please note that seating is strictly limited, so attendance must be confirmed in advance.



IMPORTANT: All guests MUST be seated by 12.55h, when we will close the doors. The live broadcast will begin at 13.00h promptly. Please note that there will be NO LATE ADMISSION under any circumstances.

Chineke! will be performing NNENNA as part of two special concerts at The Africa Center in New York.

COMPOSING LIVES

A talk as part of one of Oxford's prestigious Weinreibe Lecture series. Errollyn Wallen will speak about her approach to depicting historical, living and fictional characters in her music.

11.00 (programme starts at 9.00)

Errollyn Wallen reviews the groundbreaking 1970s CBS Masterworks Black Composers Series, newly reissued for the first time on CD.

Monday 21 January, 1pm
PHILIP BERG (The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy)
BACH Prelude & Fugue in b, BWV 544 12
BACH Chorale Prelude, O Gott, du frommer Gott 5
ELGAR, arr Brewer Chanson de nuit 5
ELGAR, arr Hesford Triumphal March, from Caractacus 8
WALLEN, E Tiger 3
JACKSON, F Three Pieces 15

Errollyn Wallen's specially commissioned encore FONDANT to mark Royal Northern Sinfonia's 20th birthday will receive its second performance. Errollyn will also judge the Composer Competition.

WORLD PREMIERE of a setting of Terese Svoboda's poem ORLANDO IS US

MP2 in Taiwan 2018
Smangus Kyokay
313 Hsinchu County
Jianshi Township
Taiwan

Director: Robert Fokkens
The Contemporary Music Group explores vocal and instrumental music by three major figures in British music, Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, Belize-born composer and song-writer Errollyn Wallen, and Wales-based flautist and composer Lynne Plowman

Joseph Boulogne String Quartet No 3 in G minor
Haydn Divertimento in C, Adagio and Variations
Errollyn Wallen New work
R Strauss (arr. Franz Hasenoehrl) Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20

Welcome back to Chineke!, St George’s resident orchestra, and Europe’s first professional orchestra comprising a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians, founded by the pioneering double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE.

This will be their fourth visit and this varied programme performed by the Chineke! Ensemble is set to be just as thrilling. It features two beautiful movements from a recently discovered Haydn Divertimento, a virtuoso arrangement of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel and a new work by Errollyn Wallen whose Concerto Grosso made such an impact here last November. Beethoven’s ever popular Septet, with its famous Minuet movement also used in his Piano Sonata in G completes the programme.

‘Chineke! could deepen and enrich classical music in the UK for generations’ SIR SIMON RATTLE

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Following on from last year's rapturous reception of Wallen's Concerto Grosso, Chineke! Chamber Ensemble will give the world premiere of a brand new septet commissioned by Cambridge Music Festival.

PROGRAMME

Coleridge Taylor
Clarinet Quintet
Errollyn Wallen
New work (CMF commission)
Beethoven
Septet

As part of the plainsightSOUND project, Decus ensemble performs music by Black British and African classical composers at Sutton House.

As part of the plainsightSOUND project, Decus ensemble performs music by Black British and African classical composers at Sutton House.

FREE CONCERT

As part of the Americana ’18 series at St John’s Smith Square, Michael Harper, tenor, Nadine Benjamin, soprano, Nigel Foster, pianist, are doing a recital called - Portrait of a Life (or Many): Art Songs from the African Diaspora featuring art songs by Black British and African American composers.

Song for Haddo 2 builds on the success of the first Song for Haddo project. Professional musicians from McOpera return to work with local primary schools and string players from the three Academies (Ellon, Inverurie and Meldrum) to learn, rehearse and then perform during the Festival a selection of the new Friday Afternoon Songs written by this year’s Friday Afternoons composer, Errollyn Wallen who has composed her already acclaimed anthology, MAP: Songs for Children Everywhere. Also on the programme is the original Song for Haddo, a piece for strings and a new composition, working title Second Song for Haddo.

A special performance by Errollyn Wallen for Hillary Clinton at Oxford University as she is honoured at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford: An Evening Celebration of Three Remarkable Women

Matthew Sharp performs the Cello Concerto at Errollyn Wallen's alma mater.

Black Cantabs: History Makers
Mon 1 October - Sat 22 December

Cambridge University Library

Black Cantabs: History Makers is a groundbreaking exhibition telling the stories of black students in Cambridge, from the forgotten pioneers of centuries past to the celebrated successes of today.

In it, a collection of photographic portraits including that of Errollyn Wallen (King's College) will celebrate centuries of black students at Cambridge (from 1700 to the present day) and inspire future generations.

Featuring trailblazers from the first black British army officer to the first black female composer to have a composition played at the Proms, the exhibition features famous faces such as Zadie Smith, Thandie Newton and Naomie Harris alongside rare archive images.

New portraits are being taken by the city of Cambridge’s chief chronicler, Sir Cam, including of classical composer Errollyn Wallen, jazz singer Justina Kehinde Ogunseitan and MP Diane Abbott.

These portraits will hang on the University Library’s 'Royal Corridor'.

This collection represents a reinvention of the traditional Cambridge portrait students may see on a daily basis and the exhibition opening marks the first day of the UK’s Black History Month (1 October).

Black Cantabs: History Makers runs from 1 October to 22 December at the University Library, before touring the University and Colleges. It builds on the painstaking research project undertaken by the Black Cantabs Society, the members of which are students and staff at the University. See the results of the project on the Society's website: blackcantabs.herokuapp.com


Cost: Free

Ages: ALL AGES

Big RNS Birthday Gala
Radio 3 in Concert

The Royal Northern Sinfonia, celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with a monumental concert from the Sage Gateshead – including music of, and inspired by, the 'First Viennese School', archive recordings, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen.

Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Fauré: Pavane
Mozart: Laudate Dominum
Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate

FIRST INTERVAL

Poulenc: Concert champêtre
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D Major, 'Classical'
Wallen: RNS Birthday Commission

SECOND INTERVAL

Haydn: Symphony No 6, ‘Le matin’
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Lars Vogt: Conductor
Mahan Esfahani: Harpsichord
Sarah Tynan: Soprano
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia

Errollyn was specially commissioned to compose a new orchestral work to help celebrate the 60th anniversary season of Royal Northern Sinfonia. The work will receive its world premiere at the special birthday gala and wii be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday September 25th.

America's most culturally diverse orchestra, the Southeast Symphony, celebrates its final concert of the 2017 - 18 season with the greatest undertaking in its 70-year history.

The program, entitled Revolution /Resurrection, is an American retrospective as well as a compelling narrative about the most influential American of the 20th century, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Negro Spiritual was born out of the tragedy of slavery and evolved into the powerful anthems of the Civil Rights movement. Lettrice Lawrence, Bradley Baker, and Jacob Lusk (American Idol) breathe life into these songs including "Oh, Freedom", "Wade in the Water", "City Called Heaven", and "Strange Fruit" as we confront America's complex past and embrace hope for the future of our country.

Errollyn Wallen has achieved acclaim as one of the foremost composers of her generation. Southeast Symphony is proud to give the American premiere of her "Concerto Grosso" which features British-Nigerian virtuoso, Chi-chi Nwanoku, heralded worldwide as one of the great living virtuosos of the contrabass and founder of Chineke!

Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony is one of the undisputed masterpieces ever conceived. Invoking images of the resurrection and the afterlife, this work calls for gargantuan forces; large orchestra, grand chorus, pipe organ, and two soloists. The Southeast Symphony is thrilled to perform excerpts from this awe-inspiring work and to welcome acclaimed opera sensations, Jen Lindsay and Maria Dominique Lopez back to Los Angeles to perform with the orchestra.

A wholly innovative new opera produced by Brolly Productions (Rachana Jadhav and Dominic Hingorani).
Excerpts of this work in development will be premiered at the National Maritime Museum.

A rare performance of Errollyn Wallen's inimitable songs.
The band members are the very best of British musicians:
Tim Harries (bass) James Gambold (drums) Rakhvinder Singh (violin) Rebekah Allan (violin) Clifton Harrison (viola) Joseph Spooner (bass)

The concert is free.

World premiere of Two Guitars given by the Housden-Tarlton Guitar Duo

Taking place at the Union Chapel in London, the event features letters by Nelson Mandela from his time in prison, most of which have remained unpublished until now. A selection of the letters will be read by an array of high-profile people across literature, politics, journalism and activism, including journalist Gary Younge, poet and novelist Jackie Kay, author and academic Zoe Wicomb, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry Jay Bernard, actor and artistic director of the Young Vic theatre Kwame Kwei-Armah, and composer Errollyn Wallen.

The evening is directed and produced by Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE. Bushell-Mingo’s career spans 35 years as an award-winning actress and director both internationally and in the UK. She is currently co-artistic director for Riksteatern, Sweden.

They will be joined by the book’s editor Sahm Venter and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, one of Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters who provided the foreword to the book.

Director of English PEN, Antonia Byatt, says, “English PEN is delighted to be celebrating Nelson Mandela’s legacy of championing human rights. We are thrilled to be joined by leading writers, actors and activists to mark the significance of his years in prison in his centenary year. Today hundreds of writers languish in prison for speaking out, as Mandela did. At PEN we know communication with the outside world for prisoners is crucial; through PEN thousands of people around the world have sent letters to writers in prison to bolster their spirit and to support freedom of expression.”

Editor Sahm Venter, says, “Madiba’s letters are each, on their own, so rich and each one adds to the existing body of knowledge about his life in prison and at times, before he went in. Every piece of writing by Madiba adds a new thread to the existing body of knowledge we have of him and his life and times.”

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela provides a deeply personal view of Mandela’s period of imprisonment from 1962 to 1990, painting an intimate portrait of a political activist who was as much a devoted husband, adoring father, dedicated student (studying for a law degree behind bars), and abiding friend.

A father of five when he was sentenced to life imprisonment, his letters home became a critical means of parenting in absentia – particularly as he was denied visitation rights until his children had reached the age of sixteen.

During his incarceration, Mandela would pen a multitude of letters to loved ones, compatriots, prison authorities, and government officials. At first he was only allowed to write and receive one letter of five hundred words every six months. Even when restrictions were finally loosened regarding the length and regularity of his correspondence, his jailors continued censoring his letters for political overtones – even innocuous references. The ultimate output reflects the famed Mandela willfulness and resilience; here every word is chosen as if his life depended upon it.

This event will be BSL interpreted.

Commissioned by Festival Myrelingues

www.bourse-du-travail.com/symphonic-gospel-49406.html


For the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in France (with a law passed on 15th April 1818), Ignatius Sancho and Chevalier Saint Georges’ works will be published for the first time. Errollyn Wallen, a British female composer born in Belize, was chosen to fulfil the festival’s vision and compose a new work in response to the two Afro-West Indian 18th century composers' ones.

Errollyn Wallen's new COncerto for the Kosmos Ensemble is inspired by music from around the world.

It is generously supported by Music in Action, Jersey, where it will premiere

World premiere of Errollyn Wallen's new anthology of songs commissioned by Snape Maltings

Lincoln Symphony have commissioned an encore piece to mark Anton Miller's 30th year as concertmaster and Ed Polochick's 20th as Music Director.

The new work will be performed by Anton Miller and Ed Polochick and is dedicated to anton Miler, Ed Polochick and Rita Porfiris.

Bruhns: Praeludium in E minor (Great)
Orgelbüchlein Project: 5 Selected Pieces:
Errollyn Wallen: Ach, was ist doch unser Leben? (World premiere)
JS Bach: Chorale-prelude, Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV.639
Kalevi Aho: Herr Gott, erhalt uns für und für, die reine Katechismuslehr (World premiere)
JS Bach: Chorale-prelude, Heut' triumphiret Gottes Sohn, BWV.630
Thierry Escaich: Gott Vater, der du deine Sonn (World premiere)
Schumann: Mässig, doch nicht zu langsam (No.4); Lebhaft (No.5) from 6 Fugues on the name BACH, Op.60
Parry: Fantasia and Fugue in G, Op.188
Interval
Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on `Ad nos, ad salutarem undam', S.259

Errollyn Wallen's Concerto Grosso will be performed as part of the World Opera Forum conference in April. The soloists are Tai Murray (violin) Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass) and Errollyn Wallen (piano).

ERROLLYN WALLEN In Our Lifetime
SALENA GODDEN Shade from 'The Good Immigrant’
JASMIN KENT RODGMAN FEAT. SALENA GODDEN New Work
AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON FEAT. SOLOMON O.B New Work
LYRIX ORGANIX X SOPHIA THAKUR Feds (Poetry for the Man Dem) from ‘UnFold - EP2’
LYRIX ORGANIX X LAURIE OGDEN Superpowers from 'UnFold - EP2’

George Jackson conductor
Salena Godden poet
Laurie Ogden poet
Sophia Thakur poet
Solomon O.B poet
Adam Jondelius baritone
LSO String Trio & Percussion

Sara Jobin, conductor
Clarence Smith Community Chorus - Clarence R. Smith, Jr.
The Voices at BGSU - Christopher Carter, director
Errollyn Wallen - Selection from Mighty River
Arr. Sylvia Olden Lee - Lord, How Come Me Here?
Arr. & Orch. Robert Sadin - Go Down, Moses
William L. Dawson - Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Arr. & Orch. Robert Sadin - Mary Had a Baby
Arr. Roland Hayes - Over My Head/Two Wings
Arr. & Orch. Robert Sadin - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arr. & Orch. Evelyn Simpson, Curenton/Arr. Betty Jackson King - Ride Up in the Chariot
Arr. & Orch. Hale Smith - This Little Light of Mine, Jesus, Lay Your Head in the Window, Witness
Moses Hogan - Hold On
Arr. & Orch. Robert Sadin - I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired/Father Alone
Arr. Jacqueline Hairston - Fix Me, Jesus

Five-time Grammy Award winning soprano Kathleen Battle has captivated audiences around the world with her luminous voice and unique artistry. One of the first Black American women to perform at the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London, and La Scala in Milan, Kathleen Battle will bring to Toledo a special program of stories and spirituals inspired by the extraordinary journey to freedom during times of slavery.

Kathleen Battle only performs this program in cities along the Underground Railroad. It will showcase local treasures, including the Clarence Smith Community Chorus and the Voices at BGSU. Don't miss this special, once-in-a lifetime concert that celebrates Toledo’s part in freedom with the legendary Kathleen Battle!

Composer Errollyn Wallen meets some of the artists working in places of conflict, violence and oppression around the world. She hears their personal testimonies and explores why art and music, poetry and drama can sometimes flourish in times and locations of danger and violence.

What use is art in a warzone, and what can these individuals and their work tell artists in more peaceful places about making art that helps us question and communicate?

Producer Michael Umney

Sara Jobin, Resident Conductor of Toledo Symphony Orchestra will be conducting the inspirational orchestral work, Mighty River

The concert on October 6th at St Gabriel’s Pimlico will be broadcast on 14th February in the Lunchtime Concert slot on Radio 3, around 2.40pm, after the Josep Pons piece. If you find you are unable to tune in, the programme will be available to listen to on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after the date of the broadcast,

THE LIGHTHOUSE WAVE is one of Mahogany Opera's mini-operas for young people. Five primary schools will stage five mini operas especially for young people. This will be the culmination of an intensive few weeks of rehearsals and practices. Each Snappy Opera has been developed by a different creative partnership working closely with the groups to bring the stories, characters and music to life.

Peabody Opera take Wallen's acclaimed chamber opera to the Millennium Stage of The Kennedy Centre.

The opera will be streamed live at 6pm (1pm UK time)

Philippa brings together a stunning solo violin programme ranging from the Baroque serenity of Biber, Telemann and Bach to the flamboyant sonata by Lebanese composer Naji Hakim and she will also be joined tonight by the composers Errollyn Wallen and Wendy Hiscocks who introduce their pieces, both inspired to some degree by the aspiration of flight...

A very special sharing of selected songs from
FRIDAY AFTERNOONS — a new work commissioned by Snape Music.

At The Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Chineke! continue their autumn tour of Errollyn Wallen's Concerto Grosso at this great venue.

Commisisoned by Orchestra of the Swan and published by Peters Edition, Concerto Grosso has been taken up by Chineke! who bring tremendous verve and virtuosity to the work — qualities which brought the house down in their first performance of the work in Rotterdam at Classical:NEXT in May.

After the rapturous reception of Chineke's bravura performance of Concerto Grosso at Classical: NEXT in Rotterdam, Chineke! perform the work again at Errollyn's alma mater, King's College, Cambridge.

ANON will be toured by Peabody Chamber Opera between November 2017 to April 2018

Venue details TBC

Performed by

Nadine Benjamin, soprano, Julien van Maellerts, baritone. & Nigel Foster, piano.

Peace on Earth is published by Peters Edition in
The Errollyn Wallen Songbook

www.editionpeters.com/product/the-errollyn-wallen-songbook/ep7888

World premiere of new choral work for The Ebor Singers
Setting of Langston Hughes' acclaimed poem.


www.latemusic.org
www.eborsingers.org/

Once again, the BBC Singers are delighted to perform as the guests of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) in a concert celebrating the work of black and minority ethnic composers.

The concert follows BASCA’s Europe-wide call for scores from their members and is a fantastic opportunity to hear new and challenging choral music, conducted by James Morgan, in the beauty of St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico.

Admission to this recording is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that as not everyone who asks for tickets uses them, to make sure we have a full house we send out more tickets than there are places. We do our best to get the numbers right, but unfortunately we occasionally have to disappoint people so please arrive early.

Matthew Sharp cello
Theatre Royal Voices Christopher Borrett, director
Soprano: Emma Walshe and Gwen Martin
Alto: Kate Symonds Joy and Rebekah Jones
Tenor: Daniel Joy and Jonathan Hanley
Bass: Nicholas Ashby and Christopher Borrett
Festival Ensemble led by Clio Gould
Orlando Jopling conductor

full-bloodied, dramatic, supple – Matthew Sharp’s playing captures the attention right through to the end of this major cello concerto” – The Strad on this performance

Matthew Sharp with celloMatthew Sharp conjures the festival into life with a sweep of his bow, his effervescent playing and engaging personality bringing Errollyn Wallen’s best work to life.

Concert lasts for approximately 45 minutes

Peace in Every Voice - NewYVC Unite Festival 2017

Stratford Circus Arts Centre and Living Song present a singing festival where 500 young voices from east London and beyond celebrate the power of song to unite.

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Performers
New Young Voice Collective Unite Massed Choir
Dunfermline Junior Chorus
Aspiro Choir
Ricards Lodge Chamber Choir
Doreen Rao guest conductor
Jane Wheeler musical director
Naveen Arles choral leader
Pam Hulme choral leader
Errollyn Wallen guest composer, piano
Gouri Choudhury guest artist, singer
Band:
Steve Lodder keyboard
Mathis Richet drums, percussion
Shammi Pithia flute, bass
Repertoire
Britten: God moves in a mysterious way from Saint Nicolas
Vaughan Williams: Let beauty awake from Songs of Travel
Jim Papoulis: Bemyanyi bersama
Stevie Wonder: Don't you worry 'bout a thing arr. Steve Lodder
Frode Fjellheim: Eatnemen Vuelie
Mark Sirett: Inngiqtuq (She sings)
Traditional: Love is the light of the world arr. Wayland Rogers
David L. Brunner: Living song
Errollyn Wallen: [with M. Dhar, A. Gichinga, S. Pithia, N. Scarlett & J. Wheeler]: Message
Isley Brothers: Harvest for the world arr. J. Wheeler

Selected to be part of PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial, MIGHTY RIVER is performed by Orchestra X at Royal Festival Hall on Saturday July 8th at 12pm. Tickets are free but ticketed.

The resident composers and participants of Hull 2017 — Jason Singh, Sam Lee, Brian Irvine, Eliza Carthy and Errollyn Wallen — come together to perform music under the directorship of James Redwood.

Errollyn Wallen's orchestral work Mighty River will be performed by her own Orchestra X at the riverfront as part of PRSF New Music Biennial celebrations at Hull which is City of Culture 2017.

Watch out for details of performances at London's Southbank Centre and in Oxford.

The producers of these special events are Oxford Contemporary Music.

Over the past year I have been working with schoolchildren and refugees from Open Door. We have created a work which explores the themes of my orchestral work MIGHTY RIVER which will be performed in Hull as part of the PRSF New Music Biennial and Hull City of Culture celebrations.

It has been a joy and a privilege working with the people of Hull.

Chineke! perform Errollyn Wallen's Concerto Grosso in the opening concert of Classical:NEXT.

National Opera Studio performances at Wilton's Music Hall

1 Graces Alley, London E1 8JB

Directed by David Pountney

The Lighthouse Wave is one of 5 mini-operas for young people to perform. The Lighthouse Wave (libretto and music by Errollyn Wallen) tells the story of the day an enormous wave came over the top of the lighthouse.

Features Errollyn Wallen performing Hush from song-cycle HUSH.

Director Polly Thomas

ANON, libretto and music by Errollyn Wallen will receive
4 performances by Peabody Chamber Opera on February 16, 17 and 18, 2017 @ 7:30 pm and 2/19/2017 @ 3:00 pm

Venue: Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 West Preston St.,
Baltimore, MD 21201 - USA

Further details to be announced

For this special Baltimore premiere Errollyn is joined by the renowned Miller-Porfiris Duo (Rita Porfiris, viola and Anton Miller, violin) who will perform Five Postcards specially composed for them by Errollyn Wallen. Airi Yoshioka, violin, will perform For Airi, also specially commissioned from Errollyn.

Errollyn Wallen’s opera ANON is being performed by Peabody Chamber Opera from Feb 16 – 19 at Baltimore Theatre Project.

Tickets: $20 in advance/$23 at door./$10 full-time students with ID

Downes examines America in these turbulent times through the lens of her own mixed African American and Eastern European background, using a breadth of American music across multiple genres and styles. She calls this music a tribute to the generations of Americans-black and white, men and women, immigrants and pioneers - who have dreamed the impossible, telling the stories of their journeys, loves and longings, hardships and hopes.

Lars Vogt conductor
Gabriel Schwabe cello
Asya Fateyeva saxophone
Danae Dörken piano

Royal Northern Sinfonia

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
GLAZUNOV Saxophone Concerto

Interval

MATTI PAKKANEN Parlando
ERROLLYN WALLEN Dervish
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV Rome from Cultures of the Past
MOZART Piano Concerto No.21 (This piece features in Classic FM’s top 100 Hall of Fame)

Three glorious concertos with three terrific stars of tomorrow, and three exciting pieces of new music. Curious about the future of classical music? Join us and find out more.

RNS At Home series 2016/17 supported by The Barbour Foundation

Post-concert spotlight performance
We were all very sorry that Royal Northern Sinfonia Music Director Lars Vogt was taken ill back in November, and unable to be at Sage Gateshead to perform Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto. The phrase ‘the show must go on’ certainly rang true that evening, however, and we were extremely grateful to Peter Donohoe who travelled up from Oxford at very short notice to perform the concerto to a packed out Sage One with no rehearsal.

Lars was extremely sad about not being able to perform after so much preparation and so we are delighted to inform you that as a special treat he will be performing the ‘Emperor’ Concerto as a post-concert performance at New Year, New Artists on Friday 27 January.

For more information on our featured composers visit www.errollynwallen.com, www.byusupov.com

Press release: New Year New Artists festival kicks off at Sage Gateshead with a special concert in Sage One



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Friday 27th January, 2017. 7.30pm

Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm. Buses from Alnwick and Hexham.

Venue: Sage One

Tickets: £12.90, £19.89, £29.56, £37.63. Concessions Available. Bar 5.

Errollyn is currently composing a ten minute opera commissioned by Mahogany Opera as part of their inventive Snappy Opera series. Premiere will take place in January in Cumbria. More information to follow.

Songs of Praise BBC One

Filmed at Strathy Point Lighthouse in North Scotland.

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Wednesday 5 October 2016
THE RESONANCE FM POETRY LIBRARY TAKEOVER
The Poetry Library
LITERATURE PERFORMANCE POETRY/SPOKEN WORD OTHER SHOWS


Join us as Resonance FM take over the library for an evening,

Resonance FM invite special poetry-loving guests from across the arts to delve into the shelves and explore what poetry means to them.

See musician and performance artist Anat Ben-David, artist Bob and Roberta Smith, composer Errollyn Wallen and comedian Matilda Wnek read and discuss their selections from The Poetry Library's collection. Poet Richard Scott hosts the evening.

The event will air live on Resonance FM and you can be one of the few to experience this live event in person.

The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall

Free but booking essential. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to reserve your place.

This event will be broadcast live from 8pm. Audience members should arrive for 7.45pm. Latecomers will not be admitted.


5 October 2016, 19:45pm - 21:00pm

Errollyn is delighted to be working as Musical Director for In Place of War organisation. Bringing together the talents of music from across the globe for performance at festivals including Shambala, Festival No.6, Ronnie Scott's and Freedom Festival in Hull. The performance in Hull will also start Errollyn Wallen's year long residency as part of Hull's City of Culture celebrations.

Does the sound of our voice communicate who we are?
Led by Canadian performer Tristan Whiston who is joined by other transgender and LBGT singers, this original song cycle explores and celebrates the voice and gender identity.
Inspired by in-depth conversations with transgender people and those who are closest to and support them, this joyful and mesmerising music gives voice to a new community.

The creative team:
Polly Thomas – director
Alex Bulmer – writer
Tristan Whiston – writer/singer/actor
Errollyn Wallen – composer

3 - 4 June, 9.15pm
Hoxton Hall

Does the sound of our voice communicate who we are?
Led by Canadian performer Tristan Whiston who is joined by other transgender and LBGT singers, this original song cycle explores and celebrates the voice and gender identity.
Inspired by in-depth conversations with transgender people and those who are closest to and support them, this joyful and mesmerising music gives voice to a new community.

The creative team:
Polly Thomas – director
Alex Bulmer – writer
Tristan Whiston – writer/singer/actor
Errollyn Wallen – composer

This performance will follow STELLA, a new theatre piece by Neil Bartlett. We recommend you see them as a double bill and make a night of it.

3 - 4 June, 9.15pm
Hoxton Hall

Does the sound of our voice communicate who we are?
Led by Canadian performer Tristan Whiston who is joined by other transgender and LBGT singers, this original song cycle explores and celebrates the voice and gender identity.
Inspired by in-depth conversations with transgender people and those who are closest to and support them, this joyful and mesmerising music gives voice to a new community.

The creative team:
Polly Thomas – director
Alex Bulmer – writer
Tristan Whiston – writer/singer/actor
Errollyn Wallen – composer

This performance will follow STELLA, a new theatre piece by Neil Bartlett. We recommend you see them as a double bill and make a night of it.

A new work with writer Alex Bulmer, Polly Thomas and Errollyn Wallen exploring transitioning and its effect on the voice. A new work for choirs and soloists.

Orchestre de Pays de Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY in Aix Les Bains (73) - concert with Renaud Capuçon

Orchestre de Pays de Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY in Montmelian (73) including a concert for schools) – concert with Mathilde Opinel

Orchestra de Pays de Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY at St Malo (Festival Classique au Large) — concert with Amihai Grosz

Orchestra X, Continuum Ensemble, Gerry O'Riordan, Matthew Sharp, Nicholas Kok, Andrew Keener, David Le Page are just some of the talents involved in the new album entitled THIS FRAME IS PART OF THE PAINTING. Released by NMC in March 2016

Listen out for a sneak preview on BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics January 5th
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tky49

Ensemble X perform at Frontiers festival, Birmingham Conservatoire of Music.
Works by Joe Cutler, Jeremy Peyton Jones and Errollyn Wallen

Orchestre de Pays de Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY in Valence (21)

Orchestre de Pays Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY in Annecy
concert for students)

Orchestre de Pays Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY at Saint Jean de Maurienne (73) in a concert for schools

Orchestre de Pays Savoie perform PHOTOGRAPHY (for string orchestra) in Epernay (51)
Theatre Salmenazar

Mr McFall's perform black apostrophe, specially commissioned by them, in Linlithgow.

Catch a sneak preview of the Cello Concerto which will be released March 18th on NMC label.This programme will be available as a podcast

A December 2015 concert collaboration between The Morgan Library & Museum and Cygnus Ensemble, Hemingway Between Two Wars will feature five contemporary composers in fresh dialogue with a brief-but-vibrant epoch in 20th-century literature and the arts. Specially commissioned works from American composers Laura Kaminsky, Damon Ferrante, Jessie Montgomery, William Anderson, and British composer Errollyn Wallen will zoom in on the cultural milieu within which Ernest Hemingway found himself during his Parisian sojourn of the 1920s. The program will not only engage with this towering American literary figure, but also those cultural luminaries in his orbit, mostly fellow expats. All five works will be scored for Cygnus Ensemble’s exotic fusion of winds, strings, and two guitars, in addition to guest vocalists for the pieces by Wallen and Anderson, and the Sheer Pluck guitar orchestra for the piece by Anderson.

Singscape, the superb a capella group will be giving the second performance of Rebuttal Blues No. 1

ive and Alive Flute and Harp Duo, Anna Noakes and Gabriella Dall'Olio, will return on Sunday 1st November to the Cutty Sark's Edwards Studio Theatre, following a sold out evening last season. in the program music by Bach, Liebermann, Faure, Tchaikowsky, Ibert, Boulanger, a world premiere by Errollyn Wallen, and a carousel of South American tunes. This year we have a further treat for you all: percussion legend Gary Kettel - and Anna's other half!- will join in to wave goodbye to the sailors at the end of the concert!
All are celebrated Professors at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance next door, where they help the young generations get fit for the profession.

Please do come along if you are free; and this year, students can book half price tickets!
Advance booking for all is recommended.

This year's theme is on Collaboration. Errollyn Wallen speaks about her broad and multi-faceted experience in collaboration and in producing new work.

John Butt Organ Recital
Saturday 10 October 2015, 6.30pm
The Chapel

John Butt
Another corner stone of music in chapel is the organ recital series and we could not hope for a more suitable performer for the occasion than John Butt.

John is an artist of the very highest quality who has been closely associated with King’s College throughout his career, ever since serving as Organ Scholar.

He performs a richly varied programme including works by Olivier Messiaen and the ever-thrilling King’s alumna Errollyn Wallen.

Free entry (retiring collection)

Part of KING'S 500 Contemporary Music Festival: Epiphany Through Music

Mr McFall's Chamber performs at Mitchell Library, Glasgow

London premiere of new work for Mr McFall's Chamber. Tracing the roots between Scotland and the Caribbean

A major new workfor Mr Mcfall's Chamber — tracing the fascinating connection between Scotland and the Caribbean. Performances in London and Scotland. Watch this space.

A brand new work for Papagena choir. In praise of the blues and a rebuttal to bad blues men.

Second performance at Broadway theatre, Peterborough, of Hawks and Horses by Peterborough Sings, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Will Prideaux

World Premiere of Hawks and Horses (William Shakespeare) for Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Peterborough Women's Choir, Peterborough Youth Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Will Prideaux

Errollyn Wallen will receive the premiere of a brand new song - HEAVENLY - commissioned for Newham Music's Festival of Music & Performing Arts, on Tuesday 7 July at the beautiful art-deco Troxy in Limehouse, East London.

Errollyn is delighted to be performing solo and with Carlos Perrote and his band in Belize Jazz Fest.

The performance will take place at the Radisson Fort George Hotel

Talk by Errollyn Wallen on her work as a composer

Free event — open to all

Part of the Music Research Colloquia Series

What: Evening events
When: Fri 17 April 2015 18:30 – 22:00
Where: Design Studio
EVENING EVENT: Join the Shrine Synchro System and their guests as their musical installations celebrate and animate the history of the struggle, splendour and success of black communities across the UK from the 1950’s to present day.

Join the amazing Errollyn Wallen around a grand piano singing Tottenham Tunes; fix up, look sharp at the 70s inspired Caribbean barbershop; exult in the Gospel of the promenading IDMC choir; soak up the cool of bluesy rock with one-man-band Lewis Floyd Henry, hang out at Larry Achiampong’s African Soul Food Hot Spot installation, and celebrate the legendary sound system culture of the late great Duke Vin with a DJ set that hits the spot with Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt.

18.30-21.45

Errollyn Wallen has been invited back to The Other Minds Festival in San Francisco for a performance of her celebrated songs.
Errollyn will be sharing the stage with Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and John Luther Adams, amongst others.

Errollyn Wallen has been invited back to The Other Minds Festival in San Francisco for a performance of her celebrated songs.
Errollyn will be sharing the stage with Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and John Luther Adams, amongst others.

Concert also including the music of Adriessen and Joe Cutler

YCM
The 21th Young Composers Meeting – Podium Gigant Apeldoorn from February 22 – February 27 2015. Seniors Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, Cathy van Eck and Errollyn Wallen, vocal coach Gerda van Zelm and chaired by Louis Andriessen.

The YCM is organized by orkest de ereprijs in collaboration with the International Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Composition Competition) in co-operation with Podium Gigant. The intention of the Meeting is to give young composers (max. age 30 years) the opportunity to exchange ideas about contemporary music and at the same time being part of the learning process of composing with an ensemble at hand. Requirements for participation of the Young Composers meeting 2015 are:

The ceremony for Errollyn Wallen's Honorary Fellowship will take place at 5pm. Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, will say a few words of welcome, followed by a citation and presentation to Errollyn Wallen of her certificate followed by a talk by Errollyn lasting 35-40 minutes which is followed by a question and answer session. Baroness Helena Kennedy is the convenor.

New York pemiere screening of DIVE – short film directed by Nicole Haran featuring music by Errollyn Wallen

CHRISTMAS AT TWILIGHT

Celebrating the spirit of midwinter festivities through the centuries, exceptional cellist Matthew Sharp, a cappella vocal trio Voice, and a group of musicians draw together Medieval harmonies, festive folk songs and carols for a unique Christmas concert.

Peace on Earth will be in the programme.

Caroline Kay-Moat (coloratura soprano) performs in a concert featuring Strauss: Four Last Songs and Wallen: Peace on Earth

Concert including the music of Errollyn Wallen
Belize premiere of Park Slope for violin and piano
Songs from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook featuring
Errollyn and children from the Belize School of Music

Errollyn shares her process of composing songs and discusses the fundamentals of a good song.

Belize School of Music presents a feast of music including the works of Errollyn Wallen performed by the composer herself.

Sabina Spielrein, Errollyn Wallen's latest opera in progress (libretto by David Pountney) is having a libretto reading and excerpts of the music performed. Directed by David Pountney
Afterwards there will be a panel discussion.

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Errollyn Wallen goes back to the room where her first compositions were performed and talks about her life as a composer

Cath Barton (from Wales Arts Review) will give a paper on Errollyn Wallen's recent opera ANON for WNO as part of the
5th International "Music on Stage' conference

The paper is entitled ‘Accessibility and relevance of opera to teenagers’

Part of the 5th International "Music on Stage' conference

Errollyn Wallen is performing in a special concert to raise money for restoring the bells of St Mary's Church, Walthamstow.
Other special guests include Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave), Stuart Wild and Steve Lewinson.

A new work, BURN (Alto Flute and Double Bass) for Ignite.

ANON come to the Tete a Tete festival for its London premiere.

Melanie Pappenheim: Falling
Sunday 27 July 3pm & 5pm
Free / Pre-booking essential via the IF: 2014 website

In a solo voice-theatre performance delivered within MK Gallery’s Cadences exhibition, acclaimed performer Melanie Pappenheim sings three uplifting songs about hitting the ground in a response to the themes of falling, destruction and gravity.

With staging by Emma Bernard and costume created by Deborah Thomas, this promises to be a musical and visual treat. Featured composers - Paul Clark: Coloro, Orlando Gough: Falling and Errollyn Wallen: Daedelus.

- See more at: www.mkgallery.org/events/2014_07_26/melanie_pappenheim_falling/#sthash.hFfwS5Qw.dpuf

ANON comes to the Tete a Tete festival for its London premiere.

Melanie Pappenheim: Falling
Saturday 26 July 3pm & 7pm
Free / Pre-booking essential via the IF: 2014 website

In a solo voice-theatre performance delivered within MK Gallery’s Cadences exhibition, acclaimed performer Melanie Pappenheim sings three uplifting songs about hitting the ground in a response to the themes of falling, destruction and gravity.

With staging by Emma Bernard and costume created by Deborah Thomas, this promises to be a musical and visual treat. Featured composers - Paul Clark: Coloro, Orlando Gough: Falling and Errollyn Wallen: Daedelus.

- See more at: www.mkgallery.org/events/2014_07_26/melanie_pappenheim_falling/#sthash.hFfwS5Qw.dpuf

Sophie Harris, cellist and Ian Belton, piano perform Dervish for cello and piano.

Daedalus (arranged by Ian Belton) will also be featured on the programme including Melanie Pappenhiem, voice.

CAUTIONARY TALES goes to Latitude in a brand new production presented by The Errollyn Wallen Company. This family opera was a hit when premiered by Opera North in 2010 and it returns with a great cast featuring Sarah Redgwick, Clare McCaldin, Mark LeBrocq and Dawid Kimberg. Directed by Daniele Guerra, Musical director, Peter Foggitt.

Beehive (from Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?) and Intense from Five Postcards are performed as part of a concert by Mr. McFall's Chamber in a concert entitled on the Shore of the Mind.

Beehive (from Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?) and Intense from Five Postcards are performed as part of a concert by Mr. McFall's Chamber in a concert entitled on the Shore of the Mind.

Beehive (from Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?) and Intense from Five Postcards are performed as part of a concert by Mr. McFall's Chamber in a concert entitled on the Shore of the Mind.

Errollyn performs from her acclaimed Songbook

Broadcast Saturday May 24th 5pm Chicago time.
Interview with Seth Boustead

Music to Celebrate Shakespeare 450
May 3 & 4, 2014

Music to Celebrate Shakespeare 450

Featuring the second performance of the new commissioned work by celebrated British composer Errollyn Wallen, MBE, and other works.

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Music to Celebrate Shakespeare 450
May 3 & 4, 2014

Music to Celebrate Shakespeare 450

Featuring the world premiere of commissioned work by celebrated British composer Errollyn Wallen, MBE, and other works.

Visit us again for new details.

A concert featuring the London premiere of Wallen's Cello Concerto and Dervish composed for Matthew Sharp, with a special appearance by Errollyn Wallen (piano and voice) performing from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook.

Two performances: 4pm and 7pm

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Two performances: 4pm and 7pm

www.wno.org.uk/anon

Laura Snowden performs Night Passage for solo guitar which is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Horatio Douglas Wallen

Two performances" 4pm and 7pm

www.wno.org.uk/anon

Two performances: 4pm and 7pm

www.wno.org.uk/anon

Tour of new opera (libretto and music by Errollyn Wallen) begins March 2014. Director Wils Wilson, designer Amanda Stoodley
Cast includes Meeta Raval, Claire Wild and Joanna Foote (sopranos)

Performances at 4pm and 7pm

www.wno.org.uk/anon

Programme: a cappella work performed by BBC Singers, Wallen's Mighty River and Elgar Symphony No 1

A live broadcast for Commonwealth Day

Errollyn is delighted to have been invited back to Symphony Space Music of Now marathon – for a 75 minute concert devoted to her music. Special guests include RIta Porfiris (viola) and Anton Miller (violin) for whom she composed Five Postcards which will receive its New York premiere in the concert.

More details to follow.

In Geometry textbooks we're told that parallel lines never meet but, from our visual perspective, they do meet at the horizon or the vanishing point as it's called.

Similarly in music it seems that singer/songwriters and composers have very little in common. But, as in geometry the truth depends on our perception. Vanishing Point will reveal the fascinating intersection of pop music and contemporary classical that is a emerging as a major trend.


Program
Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals? by Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen is an accomplished composer and singer/songwriter and the perfect person to open up the evening. This piece for soprano and string quartet is strictly notated like a good classical piece should be, but has the light feel and catchy tunes of the pop world.

Four Songs by Beck
Beck annoyed radio stations but delighted composers by releasing his new album Song Reader only in the form of sheet music. Four of our composer members will arrange the songs for soprano and the Palomar ensemble. The composers are Brian Baxter, Andy Costello, Michael Miller, and Greg Steinke.

Conceive a Man by William Jason Raynovich
The founder and Artistic Director of the MAVerick Ensemble, composer William Jason Raynovich's Conceive a Man for soprano and cello will here be reimagined by jazz vocalist Christy Bennett

Three Songs by Jennifer Hall
A favorite singer/songwriter of Palomar ensemble violinist Jeff Yang, Hall's haunting voice and insightful lyrics have made her a trusted Chicago favorite. Instead of a band, she'll front the Palomar ensemble in three arrangements of her original tunes.

Kong Must Dead
Composer Ben Hjertman is a difficult guy to pin down. He's equally comfortable writing for orchestra and other classical ensembles as he is with a rock band. His high octane band Kong Must Dead will play a set of his music to close out the night.

NewOp Week concludes on January 20th at 8pm, at the cell with a libretto reading of ANON an opera-in-progress by the esteemed British composer Errollyn Wallen with her own libretto. Tickets will go on sale very soon.

Music for the new Howard Barker play In the Depths of Dead Love

Featuring cellist Joseph Spooner

With Richard E Grant as Chin, Francesca Annis as Hasi, Michael Bertenshaw as Ghang, Jane Bertish as Mrs Hu and Arthur Hughes as Student.

Producer, Peter Kavanagh for the BBC
Sunday December 1st 10pm Radio 3

Young Artist Platform – Laura Snowden

YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM - Michael Butten

Michael Butten is a brilliant young guitarist.

His programme includes John Dowland, Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Rodrigo and Philip Cashian’s Talvi (an IGF Commission) as well as Errollyn Wallen’s NIGHT PASSAGE in homage to Benjamin Britten (Festival Commission). The work is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Horatio Douglas Wallen.

Night Passage, for solo guitar, written as a homage to Benjamin Britten and dedicated to the memory of Arthur Horatio Douglas Wallen, receives its world premiere by Michael Butten in the Young Artist Platform concert.

The work was commissioned by IGF.

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Five Postcards is performed in a presentation (introduction by MEP Mary Honeyball) of Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent.

Errollyn Wallen will also speak on a panel including Margaret Lucy Wilkins, Hon. Harriet Harman and Patricia Adkins Chiti

In her first live performance since being awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music, Errollyn Wallen will perform a variety of works from her catalogue of songs and piano music.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 020 7680 2080 or on the door

A fascinating installation at Wapping Project featuring the music of Billy Cowie and Errollyn Wallen.

A piano plays alone in a darkened room underground...

Fri, 17th May 2013 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Holst Hall, JAGS
Acclaimed cellist Sophie Harris performs an exquisite programme with pianist Dominic Saunders of stunning pieces for the cello including Arvo Pärt's Fratres, Gavin Bryars' The South Downs and Brahms F major Sonata. Sophie performs regularly as a soloist with many of Britain's leading chamber ensembles and is the cellist with the Duke Quartet. A truly inspiring evening awaits.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 132 (Fairy Tales)
Artists: Edward Polochick (Piano); Anton Miller (Violin); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola no 1 in G major, K 423
Artists: Anton Miller (Violin); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Wallen: Five Postcards
Artists: Anton Miller (Violin); Rita Porfiris (Viola)
Bruch: Pieces (8) for Clarinet/Violin, Viola/Cello and Piano, Op. 83
Artists: Edward Polochick (Piano); Anton Miller (Violin); Rita Porfiris (Viola)

A series of concerts held on the 1st Thursday of each month. These concerts will feature established musicians from diverse ethnic backgrounds & histories, Performing notated and un-noted improvised music.
These celebrated musicians share histories that can see them fit as comfortably into a wide spectrum of celebrated western musical genres, while simultaneously embracing the myriad of complex audio soundscapes at the heart of the rich musical tapestry of styles synonymous with the African classical music Diaspora.
Their use of improvisational languages and spontaneous explorations are also fused with traditional European notions of harmonic and melodic inventions.
The first concert in the series will take place on 4th April 2013, coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the assassination of African-American Civil Rights campaigner, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The evening’s performances will be a response and celebration of his legacy.

TIM RICHARDS and KATE RYDER perform their own works and improvisations and works by GERSHWIN, ELLINGTON, ERROLLYN WALLEN and MICHAEL FINNISSY, TIM RICHARDS and others.

Following her debut in 2011, Errollyn has been invited back to perform a selection of her works for piano and voice at Symphony Space in New York.

Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
212.864.1414 x 292

British Music Since World War II

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE (England) Crowd for harp (2005)
Emily Hoile, harp

SIMON BAINBRIDGE (England) Clarinet Quintet (1993)*
Saerom Kim, clarinet
Clare Semes and Jennifer Liu, violins
William Bender, viola
Sean Hawthorne, cello

JOHN TAVENER (England) Epistle of Love for voice and piano (2000)
Rachel Wilson, mezzo-soprano
Siyi Fang, piano

CORNELIUS CARDEW (England) Volo Solo, for a virtuoso (1965)
Sae Hashimoto, marimba
Corey Schutzer, double bass

MICHAEL ZEV GORDON (England) Fragments from a Diary for violin, clarinet, and piano (2005)**
Elizabeth Derham, violin
Jae Youn Chung, clarinet
Daniel K. Kurland, piano

ERROLLYN WALLEN (Belize/England) The Girl in my Alphabet for 2 pianos and 8 hands (1990)***
Peter Dugan, Jeremy Jordan, Ben Laude, and Christopher Schmitt, pianists

* First performance outside of Europe
** U.S. Premiere
*** New York Premiere

FREE tickets available 1/11

7pm Panel discussion with Michael Zev Gordon, Deirdre Gribbin, David Wordsworth, and Errollyn Wallen, moderated by Joel Sachs

In celebration of Sophie Parkin's book 'The Colony Club 1948 - 2008'. Errollyn will perform her new song 'The Colony Room Club' setting the words from Sophie Parkin's obituary poem for Michael Wojas.

A ResCen Symposium: ‘Composing and Performing in the Age of Globalisation: Errollyn Wallen at the London Paralympics 2012’



The symposium explores the creative conditions of writing and performing music for a global event in reference to the range of themes in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic games, such as enlightenment, human rights and the homecoming of athletes. The themes were approached by musical composition, communal participation, emotional reach and through scopes of architecture, audiences and worldwide media. Video examples of the world premieres of Errollyn Wallen’s Principia and Spirit in Motion will be viewed and reflected on by the artist herself and then in a question-and-answer session.
The evening will be introduced by Dr. Ola Johansson, discussing the challenges of artistic performances in the age of globalization. Errollyn Wallen will develop and explore this by examining her own experiences and insight into the ideas of Composing and Performing in the Age of Globalization including her personal perspective on her work for the London Paralympics 2012. The evening will conclude with a generously assigned question-and-answer session open to the public.

The event will be chaired by Dr. Ola Johansson, Reader in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts.

NYFOS NEXT:
CARLA KIHLSTEDT & FRIENDS

November 13, 2012 at 7:00PM

Featuring music by CARLA KIHLSTEDT, LISA BIELAWA,
MATTHIAS BOSSI, SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER, EDEN MACADAM-SOMER,
SUSAN BOTTI, NILS FRYKDAHL, ERROLLYN WALLEN,
NICOLA LEFANU, LAUTARO MANTILLA

Performers include
violinist-vocalist CARLA KIHLSTEDT
keyboardist and drummer MATTHIAS BOSSI
violinist-vocalist EDEN MACADAM-SOMER
cellist NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS
members of ROOMFUL OF TEETH
NYFOS Associate Artistic Director and pianist MICHAEL BARRETT

Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues

Admission $10 (free for NYFOS subscribers) • Reservations are required
646-230-8380 or info@nyfos.net

Hour-long concert / No intermission / Complimentary beverages

The Girl in My Alphabet for piano duo will be performed by Errollyn Wallen and Douglas Finch in the Mackerras Room as part of a concert featuring John Cage's Sonata and Interludes

Errollyn Wallen will open the 4th International Conference of MUSIC ON STAGE at Rose Bruford College on October 20th with a keynote speech. She will discuss her groundbreaking work and will also reflect on the exciting challenges and processes of creating music theatre at this time in history.

The 'Alain Locke in the 21st Century' event will be a two-day
symposium at the University of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute
on the 12th to the 13th of October 2012 (conference website is
www.alainlocke21.webs.com ). Rhodes House has nominated Locke Rhodes
Scholar of the Week for the same period. The event also coincides with the publication of The Works of Alain Locke by Oxford University Press
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The symposium promises to be a stimulating set of conversations and performances celebrating
Locke's relationship to Anglo-American culture and black modernity in
his time, and into the future. Confirmed speakers include Paul Gilroy,
Jackie Goldsby, Sarah Meer, and Kenneth Warren. There will be a musical performance by the multi-award winning British composer Errollyn Wallen MBE.

The symposium organisers are Elleke Boehmer, Laura Marcus, Michele Mendelssohn and
Lloyd Pratt of the English Faculty. The event has the support of the
American Embassy, Hertford (Locke's college), Rhodes House, the
Rothermere American Institute, the English Faculty, and the British
Association of American Studies.

Performance at private reception hosted by Leader of Royal Greenwich, Cllr Chris Roberts and Ruth Mackenzie, OBE, Director of the Cultural Olympiad.Greenwich Council to celebrate the world class cultural and cultural riches and creative industries of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

To Know Thy Self, Looking Beyond– Coleridge-Taylor from a Composer's Perspective

Premiere of specially composed work for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games. Performed by London Symphony Orchestra and choirs from around London

Olympic Stadium
London

Premiere of specially commissioned work for soprano and orchestra to be performed by Denise Leigh and the London Symphony Orchestra at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games

This ITV documentary on Royal Greenwich features Errollyn in conversation with John Sergeant talking about DIAMOND GREENWICH specially composed to mark the Queen's visit to the borough celebrating its newly granted Royal status.

TRIPTYCH, a new work specially written for celebrated organist Thomas Trotter to commemorate the 21st anniversary of Birmingham Symphony Hall and the 10th anniversary of the organ.

As well as producing regularly at The Lowry, the Library Theatre Company will also stage Manchester Lines, its second site-specific piece in the city of Manchester, in summer 2012. Written by Manchester poet and writer Jackie Kay, directed by leading director Wils Wilson and with music composed by Errollyn Wallen, Manchester Lines follows the company’s huge success of its adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, which played to packed houses in a converted Victorian mill in June 2011.

Number One First Street, Manchester UK

Errollyn has been commissioned by Trinity College of Music and Greenwich Council to compose a work specially for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The work is for orchestra and chorus.

Errollyn is delighted to be taking part as international guest at this concert in Stockholm to mark International Women's Day. Invited by sensational operatic trio DIVINE who will perform her Impossible Love, Errollyn will herself perform songs and piano works

Howard Assembly Room, Leeds March 2nd- 6th 2012
The Dukes, Lancaster March 16th
Queen's Hall, Hexham March 20th
Thoresby Riding Hall, March 24th
Square Chapel, Halifax March 27th - 28th

Inaugural Recital of the new William Drake organ in the Order of the British Empire Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral

Organist: Thomas Trotter

World premiere of new opera commissioned by Royal Opera House
Librettist Bonnie Greer

Thomas Trotter, acclaimed organist, performs TIGER

Philip Edward Fisher performs I WOuldn´t Normally Say for solo piano.

Friday, 28th October, 2011

Woogie Boogie

Featuring Philippa Mo (violin) and Errollyn Wallen (piano)

She has written her eleventh opera, she has performed live as a tap-dancing hostess on television, she has received an MBE and she has sent her CDs into space. Errollyn Wallen´s music is sparkling, startling, intelligent and beautiful – and best of all, she is here to perform her compositions herself! She will be singing a selection of her own songs and will join with Philippa Mo to play her chamber works with violin as well as a lively sonata by Handel.

Friday, 7th October, 2011

Woogie Boogie
Featuring Philippa Mo (violin) and Errollyn Wallen (piano)

She has written her eleventh opera, she has performed live as a tap-dancing hostess on television, she has received an MBE and she has sent her CDs into space. Errollyn Wallen´s music is sparkling, startling, intelligent and beautiful – and best of all, she is here to perform her compositions herself! She will be singing a selection of her own songs and will join with Philippa Mo to play her chamber works with violin as well as a lively sonata by Handel.

Composer Errollyn Wallen talks about the making of her eleven operas, revealing the fascinating processes of her art. She will also be including examples from her next opera, YES, with librettist Bonnie Greer, commissioned by the Royal Opera House, will premiere at Linbury Studio Theatre in November. Telling the Stories of Our Time will include live performance from Omar Ebrahim, Bonnie Greer, Natalie Raybould and Errollyn Wallen.

US premiere of original version: 2 pianos, eight hands
Tanglewood Music Festival, USA

Private viewing of portraits of Errollyn Wallen by Gill Robinson.

Inspired by Errollyn Wallen's music.

ONE NIGHT ONLY

6 - 8.30pm

Rita Porfiris and Anton Miller perform the work specially written for them by Errollyn Wallen

Trinity College Chapel
Hartford, Connecticut

BRUISE BLOOD features beatbox artist Shlomo in an original interpretation of Steve Reich's COME OUT, developed in collaboration with Glyn Perrin. The much celebrated FAULTLINE features a score by Scanner with composition for live voice by Errollyn Wallen. Shobana Jeyasingh's athletic dancers bring a fierce dynamism to the work, vividly portraying the turbulent tensions amongst British Asian youth today.

Celebrating Shobana Jeyasingh

Maita Robinson (soprano)
Matthew Goh (pianoforte)

Howard Assembly Room

World premiere of new opera, commissioned by Opera North
Text by Hilaire Belloc, Adapted by Pia Furtado with additional text by Pia Furtado and Errollyn Wallen
Howard Assembly Room

Airi Yohioka, violin

Excerpts from YES, new opera commissioned by Royal Opera House
Librettist Bonnie Greer
EXPOSURE series

Angela Caesar (soprano)
Allyson Devenish (piano)
Open University Club Lunchtime Concert