film industry for her professionalism and speed under pressure: her score for Elizabeth Is Queen, the official film of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, had to be completed in just three days. Her orchestral works include an overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) (1945) (after the novel by John Masefield); a Concerto for piano and strings (1948); the overture Bishop Rock (1952) and the Suffolk Suite (1964). Scores and parts for Bishop Rock and Suffolk Suite are available from Goodmusic. She also wrote a Violin Sonata (1951) and two award-winning (Clements Prize, 1948 and Cobbett Award, 1952) but little-known string quartets, which received their first recordings in 1998, as well as seven solo songs, composed early in her career. Carwithen was an accomplished pianist herself, as is evident from the piano writing in her 1948 Piano Concerto. But her neo-classical three movement Sonatina (1946) was written for her lifelong friend, the pianist Violet Graham Cole (1923-2000). She also edited for performance the second piano concerto by her husband William Alwyn. A Doreen Carwithen Music Festival took place in the village of Haddenham between 30 June and 3 July 2022, marking her centenary. For the same reason, the BBC Proms included three of her works - Bishop Rock, the Second String Quartet and ODTAA - in the 2022 season, and her life and work were featured in the BBC Radio Three series Composer of the Week in November 2022. Selected filmography Harvest from the Wilderness (1948) To the Public Danger (1948) Boys in Brown (1950) The Stranger Left No Card (1952) Elizabeth is Queen (1953) Mantrap (1953) (U.S. as Man in Hiding) East Anglian Holiday (1954) The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) Break in the Circle (1955) On The Twelfth Day... (1955) (directed by Wendy Toye) Three Cases of Murder (1955) References External links Carwithen biography on Musicweb Obituary of Doreen Carwithen by Martin Anderson East Anglian Holiday, British Transport Films Carwithen Music Festival Sonatina, played by Clare Hammond at the Aldeburgh Festival, June 2022 1922 births 2003 deaths 20th-century classical composers Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music English film score composers Women film score composers People from Aylesbury Vale British women classical composers 20th-century English composers Amanuenses 20th-century English women musicians Musicians from Buckinghamshire 20th-century women composers People from Forncett