WILD ARTS YEAR (W.A.Y)

Creating (and enabling others to create) artistic evocations of wild nature at different times of year in the UK. The multimedia project sets out to inspire creativity in others and encourage connection with our natural landscapes through creative interactions.

The Dymock Poets Re-imagined

A new setting of the tragic poem Rain for choir and piano as part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2023 commissioning scheme for the Hereford Chamber Choir

Scintilla

Scintilla is a multi-arts project collaboration with dancer choreographer Dane Hurst exploring notions of isolation and connection through wild exterior landscapes and the interior of the mind.

On Malvern Hill - Behind the Hills

A short documentary film by Tarquin Shaw Young about the commissioning and performance of the Malvern Male Voice Choir centenary commission 2022.

Liz introduces award-winning music video ‘Can You Hear Me’

Liz Dilnot Johnson introduces her film Can You Hear Me? part of I Stand At The Door - a cantata for our times

Breathing and Co-Musing

British Music Collection: To mark her time spent on Sound and Music’s New Voices 2018 Artist Development Programme, Liz and filmmaker Oli Clark produced a trio of films exploring the creative processes behind Scintilla. 
Read the full interview by British Music Collection here.

BBC Radio Interview

A BBC radio interview with images from rehearsals of Colwall Requiem for Aleppo – requiem for refugees  (14 April 2017)

Borderlands

Liz Dilnot Johnson’s 60th Birthday Concert featuring a new string quartet and a performance of her Jo Shapcott Settings. Liz welcomes creatives to respond to her works with the offer of ‘Co-muser Creative’ tickets for just £5.

Inflorescence for saxophone and piano

Liz talks with saxophonist Kyle Horch about her large-scale piece Inflorescence.

Fight / Flight /
FREEZE - The Space Between Heaven and Earth

Exploring healing from trauma, Fight/Flight/FREEZE, for musicians and projected images, is inspired by the myth of Daphne, who turns into a tree to escape trauma. The music slowly unfreezes and returns the tree to human form. Ronald Woodley. Fight/Flight/FREEZE is currently in development and The Space Between Heaven and Earth for basset horn and piano will be released soon.

Cello Suite: Reflections, Dances and Fantasias

This flexible work is made up of 28 short movements, some of which include improvisatory moments. The player is invited to shape their own interpretation, selecting and reordering movements if they wish, or performing the entire work which spans 28 minutes.

When A Child Is A Witness - Requiem for Refugees

Liz Dilnot Johnson's award-winning multi-dimensional work for refugees, choirs and solo instrumentalists, with ‘windows’ of reflection, raising awareness of the plight of those seeking refuge.

Gentle Flame Cantata

Gentle Flame Cantata premiere November 2019 (Part 1 of I Stand at the Door 2021)

Setting words by Greta Thunberg, David Hart, Kurt Masur and the Book of Revelation  5**** review Midlands Music Review ‘constantly gripping’ Christopher Morley Read more.

Intricate Web

This double album is centred around Liz Dilnot Johnson's complete string quartets, performed by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet with singer Loré Lixenberg and clarinetist Ronald Woodley.

‘a superb introduction to a major composer deserving wide recognition.’ Divine Art Recordings

Colwall Requiem for Peace

The village version of When a Child is a Witness arranged for amateur 4-part choir, bringing people of all ages and backgrounds together to share music and words on the theme of seeking and finding refuge.

Voyage

Voyage is a project featuring a set of 3 solo pieces for baroque instruments that explore female body image after major surgery. The work is inspired by Dora Williams’ artwork Triptych – a scarred series.

Inflorescence Arts

At the end of 2019, Liz started co-musing with writer and film-maker Neta Shlain exploring ideas for an opera about a wild Island. Fascinated by the process and collaboration, we are now inviting others to join in the creative vision. Neta and Liz envisage this process to be inflorescence in itself - a form which stems out of a single stalk, repeating and innovating, curving in and adding on until it is a complete plant with flowers.

Lost in Song: Blake Re-imagined

Lost in Song - a new online, immersive platform promoting song for wellbeing - combines Sir Hubert Parry’s Jerusalem with Liz Dilnot Johnson’s Blake Re-imagined.

One-Minute Creative Challenges

Videos and downloadable sheets inspiring creativity within one minute!

Becoming a composer

Podcast with Liz Dilnot Johnson, interviewed by Michael de Groot about how she became a composer (19 July 2019)