ERROLLYN WALLEN is a multi-award-winning Belize-born British composer named as one of the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers.
Her output includes over twenty operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works, which are regularly performed and broadcast throughout the world. She composed works for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in 2012, for Quuen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a re-imagining of ‘Jerusalem’ for the Last Night of the Proms in 2020, and The Elements for the First Night of the Proms in 2025. Errollyn is currently working on a new opera which will premiere at Aldeburgh in 2026. Recent premieres include a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, Parade for Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields and Way of My Dreaming Heart for the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey. Two albums of her acclaimed orchestral works are released in 2025 on the Resonus and PENTATONE labels.
Errollyn Wallen’s book, Becoming a Composer published by Faber in 2023, has been translated into Spanish. The paperback will be published in August 2025.
Errollyn was awarded an MBE in 2007, was made a CBE in 2020, and was appointed Master of the King’s Music by His Majesty The King in 2024. She was awarded Fellowship of the Ivors Academy, a British Composer Award and a FIPA D’Or for Best Music for a Television Series. In 2025 Errollyn was named BBC Classical Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year.
Errollyn Wallen is generously sponsored by The Kulas Foundation.