'Voyage of the Soul' was commissioned by the BBC Singers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings.

Voyage Of The Soul

A setting of Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers', performed by Milly Forest and Ana Manastireanu at the London Song Festival 2021.

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

An ethereal piece for solo piano evoking the different paths and movements of water droplets.

Surface Tension

Written for and performed by the Dr K Sextet in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

The Reawakening

Bone Dry

A short orchestral work envisaging a lone bird soaring across a wide landscape. Recorded in a workshop with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.

The Sea and the Skylark

A piece, inspired by Thomas Hardy's poem 'Drummer Hodge', that portrays the woeful effect that war has on innocent people.

Drummer Hodge

Performed in 2012 by the Aldeburgh World Orchestra at Snape Maltings and when the Olympic torch came to Aldeburgh.

Fanfare For The Five Rings

A piece for orchestra and rhythm section which I composed on a film music course with Aldeburgh Young Musicians. The title is inspired by the surroundings of Snape Maltings, where it was recorded.

Into The Reeds

This is a piece I wrote for a group of players from Aldeburgh Young Musicians and Britten Sinfonia Academy. The main inspiration was 4 extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666, to create a narrative of several differing sound worlds all linked by the one main theme of fire.

The Whole Heaven On Fire

A piece for two sopranos and chorus with words from Ron Padgett's poem 'Wristwatch', written on the Sound and Music Summer School 2017.

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This is the recording of my orchestra piece The Whole Heaven on Fire performed by the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon at the BBC Proms Inspire Concert August 2017, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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The Whole Heaven on Fire (Aurora Orchestra)

Performed by the Perse School Choir at St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, December 2016.

Earth Has Many A Noble City

A setting of William Blake's famous poem The Tyger performed by Cambridge Holiday Orchestra Choir and Maurice Hodges in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.

Tyger Tyger

A tune for Oxford University Jazz Orchestra performed in March 2020 at the Sheldonian Theatre.

Aurora

Will is a composer and pianist based in Cambridge/London, writing instrumental and choral music inspired by various poetic and visual sources. In 2017, Will won the BBC Proms Inspire Competition, with his composition ‘The Whole Heaven on Fire’ being performed by the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. He was subsequently commissioned by the BBC Singers to compose ‘Voyage of the Soul’, a piece commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon Landings which was broadcast on Radio 3 last year. Will’s works have been performed in venues such as Snape Maltings, Wigmore Hall and The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and have been broadcast on BBC radio and television. Will also sings professionally with St Martin in the Fields choral scholars, and previously with Genesis Sixteen, and has worked with Oxford Youth Choirs as an accompanist and conductor. He currently studies with Morgan Hayes at the Royal Academy of Music.

Will Harmer

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