Errollyn Wallen CBE

Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer, appointed Master of the King’s Music in August 2024. She has been 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 performed and broadcast throughout the world. She has composed for the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the Last Night of the Proms and BBC Radio 3 featured her as Composer of the Week. She is currently working on a new opera which will premiere at Aldeburgh in 2026. Recent works include a Violin Concerto for Philippe Quint which has been performed both in Europe and the USA, Parade for Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Way of My Dreaming Heart for the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey and The Elements for the First Night of the BBC Proms. In 2025 a recording of the Violin Concerto was released by Pentatone and Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works on the Resonus label. Errollyn Wallen’s book, Becoming a Composer, published by Faber in 2023, has been translated into Spanish and recently released in paperback. Her recordings have travelled 7.84 million kilometers in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA’s STS-115 mission.