Alison Wrenn: Women Make Music

Sing For Our Planet is a new songbook for community choirs, with multiple performances taking place around England in 2014/15. With this project, composer Alison Wrenn aims to create a programme of exciting new repertoire for community choirs, inspiring performers and audiences across the country to engage with contemporary music and its creators.

Alison will compose a 20 minute suite using texts from Greenpeace campaigns, and the remainder of the music will be written by six other composers, sourced from a call for scores. The theme of all the compositions will be peace/nature/the environment. Each composer will work with their local community choir to organise a performance in their area, and the project will culminate in a massed choirs performance in 2015.

Alison Wrenn is a British composer whose compositional style combines influences from the English Pastoral Tradition, elements of popular music and media music, as well as strains of Celtic and some aspects of minimalist music.

Alison is passionate about creating music that is contemporary while remaining accessible to wide audiences. By seamlessly blending elements from different genres, and through the use of contemporary subject matter, she has created a unique style appreciated by performers of all ages and audiences alike. Her works have been performed at multiple venues across the UK and abroad, and she has previously received financial support from the BBC Performing Arts Fund.