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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

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, orchestral and chamber compositions, and music for film and television – which are performed all over the world. She has a great love of music from a huge variety of cultures and different faiths, whose influence she uses liberally throughout her compositions.  2018, Roxanna’s 50th Birthday year, saw some exciting commissions and premieres for the BBC Last Night of the Proms and a co-commissioned oratorio “Faithful Journey – a Mass for Poland” for City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Poland, marking Poland’s centenary as an independent state. 2019 included a new commission for two conductors and two choirs, premiered by Marin Alsop and Valentina Peleggi with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and 2022 will see the world premiere of “Ever Us” for 10 choirs + symphony orchestra commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin for their 2020 Beethoven anniversary celebrations and a new opera for Garsington Opera.

Her works are published by Peters Edition Ltd and recorded on many labels including Signum, Warner Classics, Chandos, and EMI Classics.

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Roxanna Panufnik
Heartfelt
Sacconi Quartet
Various composers
Now May We Singen
Choir of Westminster School
Roxanna Panufnik
Love Abide
London Mozart Players
Roxanna Panufnik
Celestial Bird
Roxanna Panufnik
Matthew Barley, Roxanna Panufnik, John Tavener
99 Words
Voce Chamber Choir
Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik
Dreamscape
Heather Shipp / Subito Piano Trio