Lillie Harris Explained

Lillie Harris (born 1994)[1] is a contemporary British composer, copyist and engraver. Born in Canterbury, she is now based in south-east London.[2] [3]

Biography

Harris was a student of Haris Kittos at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2016.[1]

She has an interest in Baroque instruments, and in 2013 was a finalist in the National Centre for Early Music's Composer Competition, writing her The Dahomey Amazons Take a Tea Break for Florilegium.[4] She writes of the piece:Her 2016 work, remiscipate, reflecting the demolition of Glasgow's Red Road Flats, was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,[5] [6] and described as an "evocation of a crumbling building, through moaning trombones and tremolo strings, as well as the bleak aftermath of dust and silence."[7] In the same year, she wrote her solo viola work, AND, for violist Katherine Wren, who subsequently performed the work in her Nordic tour of the Shetland Islands,[8] at Soundfestival Aberdeen[9] and at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's chamber music series.

Her work, Vitreous was written for the pianist Ben Powell as part of the Psappha Composing for Piano project.[10]

In 2017, she was appointed a place on the London Symphony Orchestra's SoundHub programme, and commissioned her piece My Last Duchess, based on the poem by Robert Browning.[11] That year, she was also offered a place on the London Philharmonic's Young Composers Scheme, during which she worked with the composer and conductor James MacMillan.[12]

Harris won the Tenso Young Composers Award in 2017.[13]

She has also written reviews and articles for Revoice Magazine,[14] and maintains her own blog, The Green Copyist, on printing and preparing music sustainably.[15]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lillie Harris. From Poetry to Music. 3 September 2018 .
  2. Web site: Composing. Lillie Harris. 3 September 2018 .
  3. Web site: Lillie Harris. IMDb. 3 September 2018 .
  4. Web site: NCEM - The National Centre for Early Music - NCEM Composers Award 2013 with Florilegium. Campbell. Andy. www.ncem.co.uk. 2018-09-02.
  5. News: Lillie Harris wins chance to have RSNO perform her music - Rhinegold. Rhinegold. 2018-09-02. en-US.
  6. Web site: Young composer in Season Finale . RSNO. 26 April 2016. 3 September 2018 .
  7. News: Classical review: RSNO, Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 2018-09-02. en.
  8. News: About Nordic Viola. 2016-02-25. nordicviola. 2018-09-02. en-US.
  9. Web site: SOUND: NORDIC VIOLA. www.aberdeenperformingarts.com. en. 2018-09-02.
  10. Web site: Past Schemes Psappha. Psappha. en-GB. 2018-09-02.
  11. Web site: London Symphony Orchestra - LSO Soundhub Showcase: Phase I. lso.co.uk. en-gb. 2018-09-02.
  12. Web site: Meet the LPO Young Composers Education. Atkinson. Alison. www.lpo.org.uk. en. 2018-09-02.
  13. News: Tenso Young Composers Award 2017 - Lillie Harris - Tenso. Tenso. 2018-09-11. en-US.
  14. News: 'Whatever I had been expecting, it wasn't that': The English Concert reviewed. Revoice! Magazine. 2018-09-02. en-US.
  15. Web site: The Green Copyist. The Green Copyist. en-US. 2018-09-02.

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