A NEW piece and an interview with district composer Alison Willis will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 next week.

Journeys, premiered by the Chiltern Youth Chamber Orchestra as part of Making Music’s ‘Adopt a Composer’ scheme 2015/16, was recorded by Radio 3 at the premiere performance last year.

It will be aired next Tuesday, January 24, at 9.30pm.

The ‘Adopt a Composer’ scheme (run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and funded by PRS for Music Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust), pairs amateur ensembles with a composer for up to a year to create a new piece.

Alison, who is based at South Warnborough, near Odiham, said: “We created Journeys in response to the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, with three separate movements reflecting leaving, journey and arriving.

“Chiltern Youth Chamber Orchestra members shared their creative ideas with me throughout the process and the piece is entirely based on their input…truly young people making music for young people.

“The aim is to raise awareness of and money for children who have had to leave everything they have known. Proceeds from the future sales of sheet music and recordings will go to charities working with refugees.”

The refugee crisis is made up of many thousands of individual stories and to reflect this Alison has also written a series of solo string pieces with piano accompaniment acting as individual stories that are combined into the full piece for string orchestra.