Elis' music took a new direction in 1980 with Buccinate Tuba for choir and brass, commissioned by John Sanders and the Three Choirs Festival. (This was revived at the 1992 Gloucester Festival.) Many commissions and important performances followed after Elis moved to Suffolk to compose full-time.

Russian Requiem (Jeremy Patterson and the Birmingham Festival Choral Society)

Gloria (Brian Kay and the Cheltenham Bach Choir)

Ode to Saint Cecilia (Ian Smith and the Bedford Choral Society)

Two Piano Concerto (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra)

Violin Concerto (City of London Sinfonia)

String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (BBC and Endellion Quartet)

Orkney Calendar (Ronald Corp and New London Children's Choir)

In 1982 the large-scale Requiem – Missa pro Defunctis received its second-version performance at Cheltenham Town Hall, the impetus coming from the conductor Roger Smith and the Arts Council. In 1986 The Russian Requiem was performed at the Three Choirs Festival conducted by John Sanders, and in 1993 The Russian Requiem was performed at the Royal Festival Hall with the Bach Choir conducted by Sir David Willcocks.

Since 2000, Elis has been digitalizing and publishing his “In Manuscript” works, including all the Concertos and music for String Orchestra and many small-scale pieces. He has also produced a definitive final-edition Full Score of what he calls the “Big Requiem” (1967/82) and has composed many other works for a wide range of virtuoso performers including the soprano Malgorzata Armanowska, the recorder-player John Turner, the guitarist Raymond Burley, and the harpist Danielle Perrett.

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