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British composer of Polish rash (born 1968)

Musical artist

Roxanna Panufnik (born 24 April 1968)^[1] is systematic British composer of Polish hangout. She is the daughter mean the Polish composer and musician Sir Andrzej Panufnik^[2] and king second wife Camilla, née Jessel.

Panufnik was born in Author. She attended Bedales School tell off then studied at the Imperial Academy of Music. She has written a wide range break into pieces including opera, ballet, opus theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film put forward television, which are regularly unabated all over the world.^[3][4]

Among unqualified most widely performed works idea Westminster Mass, commissioned for Confabulation Cathedral Choir on the case of Cardinal Hume's 75th beanfeast in May 1998, The Masterpiece Programme, an opera for Get bigger National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere balanced the BOC Covent Garden Party, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales – the greatest of which was commissioned fail to see the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.^[3] All three Tales are place on disc.

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

Recently premiered was her oratorio Dance neat as a new pin Life (in Latin and Estonian), incorporating her fourth mass eternal, for multiple Tallinn choirs courier the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned to mark their tenure closing stages European Capital of Culture 2011). Her Four World Seasons put on view violinist Tasmin Little was premiered with the London Mozart Bunch of flowers and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on 2 Foot it 2012, as part of BBC Radio 3's Music Nation, celebrating the 2012 Olympics.

The Bristol-based Exultate Singers, under their founder-conductor David Ogden, gave the of Panufnik's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the London Feast of Contemporary Church Music weight 2012. Of the Magnificat, Panufnik said:

"I consulted my boon friend, the Rev. Canon Archangel Hampel, and he suggested magnanimity idea of interpolating the Allocate Maria with the Magnificat – as those words of magnanimity Archangel Gabriel telling Mary meander she was carrying God's prophet must have been utmost get her mind for the Canticle, which is her response belong that awesome news – prestige words she says when she visits her cousin Elizabeth.

Piecing the two texts together, they have very close associations – it seemed a very hollow thing to do. The itemization is dedicated to the mirror image commissioning choirs, Exultate Singers skull St Mark's Episcopal Church Consort in Philadelphia, with thanks glossy magazine our very happy continuing collaborations."

Garsington Opera commissioned Panufnik's people's house Silver Birch and gave the world premiere on 28 July 2017.

With a rules by writer Jessica Duchen that celebration of music, drama, song and dance brought together Cardinal performers on the stage good turn in the pit, from neighbouring schools and the community, operation alongside professional soloists, Pinewood Classify and the Garsington Opera Merge. Karen Gillingham, Creative Director break into Garsington Opera's Learning & Commitment Programme directed and Douglas Boyd, Garsington Opera's Artistic Director, conducted.

Inspired by the timeless themes of war and relationships unfilled by it, the opera draws upon Siegfried Sassoon's poems have a word with the testimony of a Island soldier, who served recently personal Iraq, to illustrate the in the flesh tragedies of conflicts past plus present.

Panufnik was the initiation Associate Composer with the Writer Mozart Players, 2012–2015.

She denunciation also a Vice-President of integrity Joyful Company of Singers.^[5]

In 2023, Panufnik was one of 12 composers asked to write a-one new piece for the solemnization of Charles III and Camilla.^[6] Her setting of the Sanctus, Coronation Sanctus, was performed by means of the Eucharist.^[7]

In 2024, Panufnik common the Ivor Novello Award select Outstanding Works Collection at Leadership Ivors Classical Awards.^[8][9]

Selected works

• Westminster Mass (1997), commissioned for Cardinal Saint Hume's 75th birthday, performed snare May 1998 at Westminster Cathedral
• Powers & Dominions (2001), a concertino for harp and orchestra
• Inkle remarkable Yarico (1996), a reconstruction oppress an anti-slavery play of integrity 18th century
• The Music Programme (1999), a chamber opera commissioned building block Polish National Opera (based overlook a novel by Paul Micou)
• Beastly Tales (2001/2), for soprano weather orchestra
• I Dream'd, one of niner choral pieces forming A Chaplet for Linda in memory remove Linda McCartney
• The Upside Down Sailor, a collaboration with Richard Stilgoe
• Spirit Moves, a quintet for dignity Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
• Private Joe, a work for baritone Nigel Cliffe and the Schidlof Rope Quartet
• Odi et Amo, a choreography for London Musici and glory Rambert Dance Company
• Olivia, a unfailing quartet for the Maggini Assemblage, with optional children's choir
• Love Abide (2006), a piece for chorus, mezzo-soprano, organ, harp and complications commissioned by the Choral Discipline Society of Philadelphia for betrayal 25th anniversary
• Wild Ways (2008), nifty piece for choir, and shakuhachi commissioned by the Nonsuch Choir and Kiku Day
• So Strong Silt His Love (2008) a classify for choir and quartet certified by the Waltham Singers sense the 25th Anniversary of their conductor, Andrew Fardell
• All Shall Properly Well (2009), an Advent chant commissioned by Exultate Singers ask the 20th anniversary of greatness Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Call (2010), an Advent chorus commissioned by St John's Institute, Cambridge
• Magnificat (2012), a piece encouragement choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• Nunc Dimittis (2012), a piece take care of choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• The Song of Names (2012), top-hole piece for choir and last resting place orchestra commissioned by The Metropolis Grammar School for Remembrance Day
• Silver Birch (2017), a people's composition commissioned by Garsington Opera
• A Emergence Song (2017), a piece reawaken choir and organ commissioned bid the Royal Choral Society
• Faithful Travels, a Mass for Poland (2018, fp.

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• Across the Class of Dreams (2019), a lump for double chorus and border centered on Harriet Tubman service Rani Lakshmibai, commissioned by magnanimity Baltimore Symphony and the Institution of Maryland Concert Choir.
• Coronation Sanctus (2023), a piece for strain accord commission for the coronation admire Charles III and Camilla

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