Errollyn Wallen
An internationally celebrated composer, singer-songwriter and educator, described as ‘the renaissance woman of contemporary British music’.
Errollyn Wallen CBE – a Visiting Professor of Composition at RCS – received an honorary doctorate in music for her illustrious and multi-award-winning career with its prolific cross-genre output that spans everything from opera, orchestral and dance to film and television.
Errollyn’s body of work includes twenty-two operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal pieces which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She was the first black woman to have a work featured in the Proms and the first woman to win the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music.
As a broadcaster, Errollyn has made several documentaries for radio and her Classical Commonwealth was nominated for the Prix Europa.
Errollyn received her honorary doctorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s summer graduation in Glasgow where more than 300 students graduated across the disciplines of music, drama, dance, production, film and education.