Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi-award-winning, Belize-born British composer named as one of the world’s top 20 most-performed, living classical composers.

Her output includes 22 operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber, and vocal works. She composed works for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in 2012, for Queen 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. Wallen is currently working on a new opera, A Christmas Miracle, premiering in 2026. Recent premieres include a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, Parade for Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Flourish for Chineke! Orchestra’s 10th anniversary, and a Latin setting of the Magnificat for the 500th anniversary of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Two albums of her acclaimed orchestral works (the Violin Concerto on Philippe Quint’s Milestones and Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works were released in 2025 on the PENTATONE and Resonus labels. Wallen is the author of the 2023 book Becoming a Composer, 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. Other honors include: Fellowship of the Ivors Academy, Honorary Membership of Royal Academy of Music, a British Composer Award, a FIPA d'or for “Best Music for a Television Series,” and Alumna of the Year by King’s College, London University. In 2025 she was named BBC Classical Music Magazine’s “Personality of the Year.”