About Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik (b.1968) ARAM, GRSM (hons), LRAM studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has written a wide range of pieces - opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions, and music for film and television - which have been performed all over the world.

Highlights of her works include "Westminster Mass", commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume's 75th birthday; "The Music Programme", an opera for Polish National Opera's millenium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival; and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's "Beastly Tales" - the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.  All three Tales are available on disc.

Roxanna has a particular interest in world music - a recent culmination of this was "Abraham", a violin concertio commissioned by Savannah Music Festival for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christian, Islamic and Jewish music.  This was then converted into an overture, commissioned by the World Orchestra for Peace and premiered in Jerusalem under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

She is currently writing a new Four Seasons for violinist Tasmin Little.  Other premieres later this year include a Shakespeare song cycle "The Generation of Love" with tenor Mark Padmore, Richard Watkins (horn) and pianist Julius Drake.  Her third mass setting "Schola Missa de Angelis" for choir and brass octet is also in rehearsal, for its premiere in May.

Roxanna's compositions are published by Peter's Edition Ltd and have been recorded by many companies including Warner Classics and EMI Classics.

Further information can be found on www.roxannapanufnik.com.