DR ALISON WILLIS
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Organised into Solo, Small Ensemble and Large Ensemble to help you find what you are looking for!

 
SOLO
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LOVE IN IDLENESS (2017) - Solo Harp                                                                  
Difficulty: Moderate/Advanced Duration c.6'40''    Telling the story of beautiful Titania and unfortunate Bottom from a Midsummer Night's Dream.
Winner of the Future Blend Project 2018

Score coming soon from Poppy Harp.  Listen here.


PASCHALIA (2017) - Organ 
Difficulty: Moderate/Advanced Duration c.4'20''    Recording by Rupert Gough - Royal Holloway Chapel Organ, with thanks.                                 Commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine as part of their New Music Series March/April edition 2017. Ideally suited to Easter Morning, a bright celebratory toccata based on "Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today" from the Lyre Davidica.
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PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO. 1 (2015) - Organ 
Difficulty: Moderate/Advanced Duration c.4'    Written for the restoration of The Moot Hall Organ in Colchester and first performed there by Weston Jennings (Concert Organist and Festival Hall Organ Scholar) in June 2015.                                                 
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​SMALL ENSEMBLE

PIED PIPER (2016) -
Saxophone Quartet (2016)
Difficulty: Moderate/Advanced Duration  c.6'30''    Commissioned by The Ferio Saxophone Quartet for their tour of The Channel Islands November 2015, PIED PIPER is intended as a stand alone performance piece but also a piece that can be used in a compositional workshop context.
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​LARGE ENSEMBLE

JOURNEYS (2016) - String Orchestra with Violin/Viola/Cello solos from within orchestra             
ACT I – “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”                                                                                                                         
ACT II – “No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” 
ACT III – “I don’t know what I have become but I know that anywhere is safer than here” 

 (All quotes from “Home” by Warsan Shire - used by permission.)            
Difficulty: Moderate/Advanced Duration c. 6'40''    A response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, JOURNEYS was commissioned by CYCO (Chiltern Youth Chamber Orchestra) as part of Making Music’s “Adopt a Composer” scheme which pairs composers with ensembles to create new works. 
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