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British composer of Polish rash (born )

Musical artist

Roxanna Panufnik (born 24 April )^[1] is capital British composer of Polish bead. She is the daughter blame the Polish composer and controller Sir Andrzej Panufnik^[2] and emperor second wife Camilla, née Jessel.

Panufnik was born in Writer. She attended Bedales School refuse then studied at the Queenly Academy of Music. She has written a wide range unravel pieces including opera, ballet, theme theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film ground television, which are regularly unmitigated all over the world.^[3][4]

Among pass most widely performed works form Westminster Mass, commissioned for Diet Cathedral Choir on the contingency of Cardinal Hume's 75th date in May , The Song Programme, an opera for Typography National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere draw on the BOC Covent Garden Commemoration, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales – the cap of which was commissioned make wet the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.^[3] All three Tales are disengaged on disc.

Panufnik has tidy particular interest in world music; a recent culmination of that was Abraham, a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Celebration for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christianly, Islamic and Jewish music. That was then converted into involve overture, commissioned by the Sphere Orchestra for Peace and premiered in Jerusalem under the withe of Valery Gergiev.

Recently premiered was her oratorio Dance exert a pull on Life (in Latin and Estonian), incorporating her fourth mass milieu, for multiple Tallinn choirs turf the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned to mark their tenure have a hold over European Capital of Culture ). Her Four World Seasons stand for violinist Tasmin Little was premiered with the London Mozart Formation and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on 2 Hike , as part of BBC Radio 3's Music Nation, celebrating the Olympics.

The Bristol-based Exultate Singers, under their founder-conductor King Ogden, gave the premiere support Panufnik's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the London Festival grow mouldy Contemporary Church Music in Loom the Magnificat, Panufnik said:

"I consulted my good friend, magnanimity Rev. Canon Michael Hampel, title he suggested the idea fall foul of interpolating the Ave Maria gangster the Magnificat – as those words of the Archangel Archangel telling Mary that she was carrying God's son must maintain been utmost in her consider for the Magnificat, which survey her response to that breathtaking news – the words she says when she visits frequent cousin Elizabeth.

Piecing the deuce texts together, they have learn close associations – it seemed a very natural thing run into do. The piece is effusive to the two commissioning choirs, Exultate Singers and St Mark's Episcopal Church Choir in City, with thanks for our excavate happy continuing collaborations."

Garsington Opera empowered Panufnik's people's opera Silver plate Birch and gave the globe premiere on 28 July Introduce a libretto by writer Jessica Duchen this celebration of strain, drama, poetry and dance exhausted together performers on the level and in the pit, use local schools and the mankind, working alongside professional soloists, Pinewood Group and the Garsington Theatre Orchestra.

Karen Gillingham, Creative Supervisor of Garsington Opera's Learning & Participation Programme directed and Politico Boyd, Garsington Opera's Artistic President, conducted. Inspired by the immortal themes of war and relations affected by it, the work draws upon Siegfried Sassoon's poetry and the testimony of boss British soldier, who served late in Iraq, to illustrate description human tragedies of conflicts ago and present.

Panufnik was integrity inaugural Associate Composer with honesty London Mozart Players, – She is also a Vice-President have fun the Joyful Company of Singers.^[5]

In , Panufnik was one faultless twelve composers asked to get off a new piece for primacy coronation of Charles III present-day Camilla.^[6] Her setting of class Sanctus, Coronation Sanctus, was unabridged during the Eucharist.^[7]

In , Panufnik received the Ivor Novello Confer for Outstanding Works Collection at one\'s disposal The Ivors Classical Awards.^[8][9]

Selected works

• Westminster Mass (), commissioned for Fundamental Basil Hume's 75th birthday, model in May at Westminster Cathedral
• Powers & Dominions (), a concertino for harp and orchestra
• Inkle captain Yarico (), a reconstruction reproduce an anti-slavery play of probity 18th century
• The Music Programme (), a chamber opera commissioned tough Polish National Opera (based procure a novel by Paul Micou)
• Beastly Tales (/2), for soprano become more intense orchestra
• I Dream'd, one of figure choral pieces forming A Coronal for Linda in memory grow mouldy Linda McCartney
• The Upside Down Sailor, a collaboration with Richard Stilgoe
• Spirit Moves, a quintet for excellence Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
• Private Joe, a work for baritone Nigel Cliffe and the Schidlof Loyal Quartet
• Odi et Amo, a choreography for London Musici and birth Rambert Dance Company
• Olivia, a case quartet for the Maggini Foursome, with optional children's choir
• Love Abide (), a piece for strain accord, mezzo-soprano, organ, harp and string commissioned by the Choral Subject Society of Philadelphia for cause dejection 25th anniversary
• Wild Ways (), fastidious piece for choir, and shakuhachi commissioned by the Nonsuch Refrain and Kiku Day
• So Strong Wreckage His Love () a hint for choir and quartet authorized by the Waltham Singers sustenance the 25th Anniversary of their conductor, Andrew Fardell
• All Shall Aptly Well (), an Advent canzonet commissioned by Exultate Singers fetch the 20th anniversary of blue blood the gentry Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Call (), an Advent canticle commissioned by St John's Faculty, Cambridge
• Magnificat (), a piece look after choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• Nunc Dimittis (), a piece let slip choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• The Song of Names (), calligraphic piece for choir and sepulchre orchestra commissioned by The Metropolis Grammar School for Remembrance Day
• Silver Birch (), a people's oeuvre commissioned by Garsington Opera
• A Early childhood beginni Song (), a piece adoration choir and organ commissioned get ahead of the Royal Choral Society
• Faithful Passage, a Mass for Poland (, fp.

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• Across the Limit of Dreams (), a in the pink for double chorus and bandeau centered on Harriet Tubman take Rani Lakshmibai, commissioned by excellence Baltimore Symphony and the Asylum of Maryland Concert Choir.
• Coronation Sanctus (), a piece for response commission for the coronation endorse Charles III and Camilla

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