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The Girl In My Alphabet.... new album available now 
Errollyn Wallen
excerpts from:
"meet me at harold moores' - 1998
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Excerpts from the: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra:
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Jordan Town, the video
Born in Belize, Errollyn Wallen was educated at London and Cambridge Universities.
Before university she studied dance at The Dance Theatre of Harlem and won a national poetry competition judged by Ted Hughes.
Acclaimed works include the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, commissioned by the BBC, In our Lifetime, choreographed by Christopher Bruce and her album of songs, Meet Me at Harold Moores, which she also produced and which was sponsored by the Peter Whittingham Award. She formed her own group, Ensemble X, whose motto is "we don't break down barriers in music...we don't see any." They have performed in nightclubs, concert halls, cathedrals and living-rooms. They have just recorded a CD of Errollyn
Wallen's music for release in Spring 2002. Wallen's gleefully eclectic musicianship has landed her in television gameshows (as musical hostess and tap-dancer) alongside Caroline Aherne,Tony Wilson, John Thomson and Phil Cornwell), pop and jazz bands (Eternal, Des'ree, Courtney Pine) - and heavy
metal bands. She has also collaborated with DJ supreme A Guy Called Gerald.
Commissions include works for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, The Royal Ballet, Garden Venture (The Royal Opera House), the BBC, Channel 4, Granada Television, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, The Cripplegate Foundation, Union Dance, The Royal College of Organists, Women's Playhouse Trust, the gogmagogs, Bath International Guitar Festival, Faber Music, Gemini, Thomas Buckner, Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), the Continuum Ensemble, Kate Westbrook, The British Flute Society, COMA, Broomhill Opera, Nottingham Now Festival, Contact Theatre and the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.
Her orchestral music has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra (in the 1998 Proms) the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
In the last few years Errollyn Wallen has increased her international reputation with performances of her music in Europe, the United States, Africa, Australia and world-wide televised performances. She was awarded the
1999 James and Jeanne Newman Fellowship from the Djerassi Foundation (California) and the 1999/2000 Norton Stevens Fellowship from 'the MacDowell Artists Colony in New Hampshire. She was a featured composer and performer in the 1999 Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival and Composer of the Month (May) at the 2000 Chard Festival. In 2001 so far she has received over seventy public performances of her work.
Errollyn Wallen regularly appears on television and radio talking about music and most recently presented a BBC television documentary on the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. In October she presented her work at the newly re-opened New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of Uk in NY, a festival of British music. As a pianist/singer-songwriter she performs internationally, both solo and with her band and next year her band will be travelling to South America at the invitation of the British Council to collaborate with Venezuelan band Pro Modera. Errollyn Wallen was a contributor to Art, Not Chance, a book of artists' diaries commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation and published this June.
In August the newly formed Errollyn Wallen Company presented its first work, Jordan Town, in the Edinburgh Festival. The work is based around her songs and is a collaboration with film makers the Honey Brothers and choreographer/dancer Tom Sapsford of the Royal Ballet. Errollyn is currently working on the next show, Another America, as well as a several other commissions including a work for the Brodsky Quartet, a work for solo percussion and two operas. Her new solo show, Words Without Music With Words will première at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in December (1,3,4,5, and 6) as the first in the performance series "Jerwood: Solo With Light" commissioned by WPT and the Jerwood Foundation.
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The stunning new album from Errollyn Wallen, available now. |
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RANI —QUEEN OF THE STARS
ERROLLYN WALLEN'S NEW SONG FOR THE QUEEN'S GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
On June 3rd the Queen and the people of Slough will share in a magnificent musical event that celebrates unity, diversity and majesty for all. The acclaimed composer Errollyn Wallen has been specially commissioned to write a new song Rani - Queen of the Stars for the people of Slough which will be performed by Slough Voices, a massed choir made up of local school and community choirs, The Central Band of the RAF and dhol drummers from The Ministry of Dhol. The work will be directed by Brenda Rattray who, with Errollyn, has been working over recent months with the Slough choir formed specially for the event. The work’s premiere will be televised and broadcast live by the BBC and the Slough performance of Rani — Queen of the Stars kicks off BBC Music Live’s celebrational Jubilee music broadcast.
This inspirational new work, for which Errollyn wrote both the words and the music, comes hot on the heels of The Girl in My Alphabet, which has received rave reviews.
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Head of Centre: Professor Christopher Bannerman
The Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts
sMiddlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ
Tel/Fax: 020 8411 6288
e-mail: @mdx.ac.uk
