The full title of this article is “From mini Mars bars to matters of life or death: Errollyn Wallen on becoming a composer.” Errollyn Wallen is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer and performer, considered to be one of the top 20 most performed living composers of classical music in the world. Here are excerpts…
“Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished.”
In 1920, that’s how French composer Maurice Ravel described the ballet he hoped would be performed based on his new symphonic .
In an exclusive extract from her new book the musician recalls the shift from concertgoer to concert-giver – and how it involved chocolate, and explains why opera composers lie, cheat, steal, murder and live to tell the tale
The Israeli Chamber Project is a consortium of musicians who collaborate to bring the mutual creativity of chamber music in various combinations of instruments to their home country of Israel