Liz Lane

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🎶 Silver Rose, RNCM International Brass Band Festival and Cardiff University School of Music.

A performance by one of the best brass bands in the world, a top conductor, and fabulous narrator - and knowing this wouldn't have been possible without my studies at the highly respected Cardiff University Music School, currently threatened with closure.
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I am a British composer whose music has been described as  'spell-binding', 'moving', 'powerful', 'sensitive', 'stunning' and 'brilliantly creative'

My compositions have been performed by some of the world's top musicians in major concert halls and venues throughout the UK and internationally, with commissions encompassing orchestral, choral, ensemble, wind band and brass band genres, as well as being broadcast on BBC One, ITV and BBC Radio 3. In 2021 I was appointed Composer in Association with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

I enjoy writing for performers of all abilities, diverse occasions and, more recently, music for brass band and an increasing number of community and outreach projects.​ I love working with melody but sometimes unexpectedly, often underpinned by rich harmonies -perhaps described as broadly tonal with a twist.

I was awarded a PhD in composition in 2010 from Cardiff University. Alongside my freelance work as a composer, I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, also Associate Lecturer at the Open University and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.

Testimonials

'Can't decide which was my favourite percussion moment of #Innovation216 by @lizlanecomposer tonight. Maybe the twigs on the bass drum simulating old propeller planes…. Or maybe the tubular bell descending into a bucket of water to simulate the Doppler effect sound of passing aircraft.’

'Your composition is beautiful. So emotive and a wonderful portrayal of the battle.'

'Liz’s Holding the Hill had me in tears from the very beginning and I know I wasn’t the only one. It was the perfect way to remember the veterans.'

‘loved the #Innovation216 piece from #composer @lizlanecomposer’

Upcoming EVents
Beyond the Light | Brass Band Northwest, Judson Scott | Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA

Beyond the Light | Brass Band Northwest, Judson Scott | Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA

March 23, 2025
Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
Modular 20 | Richmond Brass Band, Ian Walshaw, Duke Street Church, London

Modular 20 | Richmond Brass Band, Ian Walshaw, Duke Street Church, London

March 29, 2025
Duke Street Church, Quadrant Road, Richmond, TW9 1DH
A Greater Love | OU Choir, Bill Strang | St Mary and St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

A Greater Love | OU Choir, Bill Strang | St Mary and St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

April 12, 2025
St Mary and St Giles Church, Stony Stratford
Serenata | Flowers Band, Paul Holland | Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham

Serenata | Flowers Band, Paul Holland | Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham

July 13, 2025
Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham, GL51 6 EP