Lillie Harris

Lillie Harris (born 1994) is a contemporary British composer, copyist and engraver. Born in Canterbury, she is now based in south-east London.

Biography Harris was a student of Haris Kittos at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2016. She writes of the piece:Her 2016 work, remiscipate, reflecting the demolition of Glasgow's Red Road Flats, was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and described as an "evocation of a crumbling building, through moaning trombones and tremolo strings, as well as the bleak aftermath of dust and silence." In the same year, she wrote her solo viola work, AND, for violist Katherine Wren, who subsequently performed the work in her Nordic tour of the Shetland Islands, at Soundfestival Aberdeen and at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's chamber music series.

Her work, Vitreous was written for the pianist Ben Powell as part of the Psappha Composing for Piano project.

In 2017, she was appointed a place on the London Symphony Orchestra's SoundHub programme, and commissioned her piece My Last Duchess, based on the poem by Robert Browning. That year, she was also offered a place on the London Philharmonic's Young Composers Scheme, during which she worked with the composer and conductor James MacMillan.

Harris won the Tenso Young Composers Award in 2017.

In 2018, Harris was awarded a place on the inaugural National Youth Choir Young Composer Scheme, alongside Harry Baker, Shruthi Rajasekar, and Joanna Ward. Two of Harris's choral works were recorded and released on NMC Recordings.

She has also written reviews and articles for Revoice Magazine,

Selected works My Last Duchess (2018) - clarinets, viola, percussion, electronic tape and poem extracts triggered by audience participation Recall (2018) - large ensemble Elsewhen (2017) - sextet Vernichtung-Frage-Schrei (2016–17) - a capella voices vitreous (2016–17) - piano AND (2016) - viola wavelet (2016) - mixed ensemble remiscipate (2015–16) - orchestra Chrysalis (2015) - harp, live electronics, tape Red (2015–16) - sinfonietta In the Company of Nightingales (2015) - large mixed ensemble and solo baritone Dormientes Bestia (2014–15) - solo great bass paetzoid and electronics Qinah (2014) for SSATB voices The Dahomey Amazons Take a Tea Break (2013) - recorder, Baroque violin and cello, and harpsichord Lola on the Beach (2012) - cello Nineteen-to-Twenty-Hundred AD (2011) - strings, piano and HighC electronics