Lillie Harris facts for kids

Lillie Harris (born in 1994) is a British composer. This means she writes music. She also works as a copyist and engraver, which involves preparing music scores. Lillie was born in Canterbury and now lives in south-east London.

About Lillie Harris

Lillie Harris studied music at the Royal College of Music with Haris Kittos. She finished her studies there in 2016.

She is very interested in Baroque instruments. These are musical instruments from a long time ago, like the 1600s and 1700s. In 2013, she was a finalist in a special competition for composers held by the National Centre for Early Music. For this competition, she wrote a piece called The Dahomey Amazons Take a Tea Break. It was performed by a group called Florilegium. Lillie enjoyed mixing old Baroque styles with African rhythms in this piece.

In 2016, Lillie wrote a piece for orchestra called remiscipate. This music was inspired by the demolition of the Red Road Flats in Glasgow. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra performed it for the first time. People described the music as sounding like a building falling apart, with sad trombones and shaking strings. It also showed the quiet, dusty feeling after something big is gone.

That same year, Lillie wrote a solo piece for the viola, an instrument similar to a violin. This piece was called AND. A violist named Katherine Wren played it on her tour of the Shetland Islands. She also performed it at Soundfestival Aberdeen and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Lillie also wrote a piano piece called Vitreous. She created this for pianist Ben Powell as part of a project by the Psappha group.

Awards and Other Work

In 2017, Lillie Harris was chosen for the London Symphony Orchestra's SoundHub programme. This is a special program for new composers. As part of this, she wrote a piece called My Last Duchess. It was based on a poem by Robert Browning.

Also in 2017, she joined the London Philharmonic's Young Composers Scheme. During this time, she worked with the famous composer and conductor James MacMillan.

Lillie won the Tenso Young Composers Award in 2017. This award recognized her talent as a young composer.

Besides writing music, Lillie has also written articles for Revoice Magazine. She also has her own blog called The Green Copyist. On her blog, she shares ideas about how to print and prepare music in a way that is good for the environment.

Selected Music Pieces

Here are some of the musical pieces Lillie Harris has written:

• My Last Duchess (2018) - for clarinets, viola, percussion, electronic sounds, and parts of a poem.
• Recall (2018) - for a large group of musicians.
• Elsewhen (2017) - for six instruments.
• Vernichtung-Frage-Schrei (2016–17) - for voices singing without instruments (a capella).
• vitreous (2016–17) - for piano.
• AND (2016) - for solo viola.
• wavelet (2016) - for a mixed group of instruments.
• remiscipate (2015–16) - for orchestra.
• Chrysalis (2015) - for harp, live electronic sounds, and recorded sounds.
• Red (2015–16) - for a small orchestra (sinfonietta).
• In the Company of Nightingales (2015) - for a large mixed group of instruments and a solo male singer.
• Dormientes Bestia (2014–15) - for a special instrument called a great bass paetzoid and electronic sounds.
• Qinah (2014) - for five voices (two sopranos, alto, tenor, bass).
• The Dahomey Amazons Take a Tea Break (2013) - for recorder, Baroque violin, Baroque cello, and harpsichord.
• Lola on the Beach (2012) - for solo cello.
• Nineteen-to-Twenty-Hundred AD (2011) - for strings, piano, and HighC electronic sounds.