Zillah writes mostly choral, piano and chamber pieces. Some examples of recent works are listed below. Please get in touch with Zillah if you would like more information about any of the pieces or would like to obtain a score for review or purchase. She’d also love to hear from anyone interested in collaborating on a future project. For more details of recent performances, please visit the Concerts page.
Hymn
Duration: 5 minutes
Arrangement: SATB and piano
Commissioned by the Addison Singers and dedicated to the memory of Cathy Bereznicki, Zillah has written a setting of the very beautiful poem ‘Hymn’ by Joseph Addison for first performance at the Addison Summer Concert 2019. The piece is a celebration of singing, finishing with Joseph Addison’s wonderful line, ‘Forever singing as they shine!’. It was first performed at the Addison Summer concert in West London on 13 July (details on the concerts page). The piece was part of a year of new commissions with composers Michael Berkeley and Howard Goodall also writing new pieces for the Addison Singers for their Spring and Christmas concerts.
17 Haiku for Women
Duration: 7 minutes
Arrangement: SAA unaccompanied ladies voices
Written for a concert to mark International Women’s Day in 2018, the piece uses haiku written by women about their experiences, arranged around different stages of life. It was first performed at the Vauxhall Tea House Theatre on 8th March, 2018.
The Sea Witch
Duration: 10 minutes
Arrangement: Wind Ensemble
A piece for contemporary dance in three movements written for 9 piece wind ensemble, collaborating with choreographer Alister Wroe and first performed in 2017 by the London Consort of Winds and danced by Sara Roisland Torsvik.
A Red, Red Rose
Duration: 3 minutes
Arrangement: SATB unaccompanied choir
Setting of Robert Burns’ famous poem by the same name written for the wedding of Sophie Rose Reid and Tim Oladapo Ogunlesi on 30th September 2017 and receiving further performances in the Isle of Man in 2018. Watch an informal recording.
Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Series of piano miniatures inspired by photographer Matt Botwood’s atmospheric video art capturing watery reflections in a pine forest near his home in remote Wales. Watch the video.
Duration: 4 minutes
Part two of a collaboration with landscape photographer Matt Botwood for solo piano and optional video. A selection of these pieces was performed at the London Composers Forum summer concert in June 2016. Watch the video.
Cornish Prayer
Duration: 3 minutes
Arrangement: SATB choir and piano/organ
Choral setting of the Lord’s Prayer in Cornish premiered by Bude Choral Society on 26th November, 2016.
That Time of Year
Duration: 4 minutes
Arrangement: SATB choir and piano
Setting of Shakespeare’s very beautiful Sonnet 73. The piece was premiered by the Addison Chamber Choir on 15th October 2016 as St Sepulchre without Newgate church as part of a series of concerts to mark Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Listen to an informal recording.
Introspective
Duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds
Arrangement: solo piano
Short, reflective piece about finding calm and space in our hectic 21st century lives, first performance July 2015.
Shipwrecked
Duration: 5 minutes
Arrangement: narrator and viola
Narrative-led piece about a shipwreck off the North Devon coast in 1983 and the dramatic events that ensued, first performance 27th July 2016.
Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds
Arrangement: Classical guitar
Written as a composition exercise and performed by my Uncle Pete Coleman who lives minutes away from this beach in Bude, Cornwall.
