Roxanna Panufnik is the daughter of the composer and conductor Andrzej Panufnik. She is one of the UK’s most popular and loved composers whose works have struck a deep emotional chord with audiences everywhere. She has written a wide range of pieces including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film and television which are regularly performed all over the world.

Among her most widely performed works are 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 millennium season and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales.

Panufnik has a particular interest in world music, which culminated in Abraham, a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Festival for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christian, Islamic and Jewish music. This was then converted into the overture Three Paths to Peace, commissioned by the World Orchestra for Peace and premiered in Jerusalem under the baton of Valery Gergiev.