Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, she 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 work include Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume’s 75th birthday, and available on CD; The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera’s millennium 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.

Other recent compositions comprise Roxanna’s critically acclaimed harp concerto Powers & Dominions; Letters from Burma for oboist Dougie Boyd and the Vellinger String Quartet; Leda, a ballet for English National Ballet and Wratislavia Cantans and Abraham - a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Festival for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christian, Islamic and Jewish music. Commissions for 2006-8 include various choral and chamber works from within the UK, Poland and USA, and solo works for ‘cellist Han-Na Chang and flautist Emily Beynon.

Three CDs have been released recently - Beastly Tales on the EMI British Composers label,
 Angels Sing, Roxanna’s religious choral works with The Joyful Company of Singers, on Warner Classics and The Upside Down Sailor with librettist & narrator Richard Stilgoe, accompanied by David Campbell‘s Soundwood Ensemble, on the Black Box label.

Commissions and Performances
New commission - 2008
5 May Stratford-upon-Avon Civic Hall (World Premiere)