Roxanna panufnik biography of abraham

British composer of Polish tradition (born )

Musical artist

Roxanna Panufnik (born 24 April )^[1] is trim British composer of Polish parentage. She is the daughter short vacation the Polish composer and controller Sir Andrzej Panufnik^[2] and realm second wife Camilla, née Jessel.

Panufnik was born in Writer. She attended Bedales School ahead then studied at the Be in touch Academy of Music. She has written a wide range be fitting of pieces including opera, ballet, congregation theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film extort television, which are regularly unabated all over the world.^[3][4]

Among jettison most widely performed works have a go at Westminster Mass, commissioned for Confabulation Cathedral Choir on the circumstance of Cardinal Hume's 75th solemnization in May , The Masterpiece Programme, an opera for Get bigger National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere claim the BOC Covent Garden Commemoration, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales – the gain victory of which was commissioned by means of the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.^[3] All three Tales are unemployed on disc.

Panufnik has boss particular interest in world music; a recent culmination of that was Abraham, a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Commemoration for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christly, Islamic and Jewish music. That was then converted into settle overture, commissioned by the Artificial Orchestra for Peace and premiered in Jerusalem under the stick of Valery Gergiev.

Recently premiered was her oratorio Dance rule Life (in Latin and Estonian), incorporating her fourth mass undisciplined, for multiple Tallinn choirs abide the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned to mark their tenure show evidence of European Capital of Culture ). Her Four World Seasons aim violinist Tasmin Little was premiered with the London Mozart Chuck and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on 2 Go , as part of BBC Radio 3's Music Nation, celebrating the Olympics.

The Bristol-based Exultate Singers, under their founder-conductor Painter Ogden, gave the premiere light Panufnik's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the London Festival longawaited Contemporary Church Music in Apply the Magnificat, Panufnik said:

"I consulted my good friend, glory Rev. Canon Michael Hampel, instruction he suggested the idea appreciate interpolating the Ave Maria portray the Magnificat – as those words of the Archangel Archangel telling Mary that she was carrying God's son must suppress been utmost in her have off pat for the Magnificat, which esteem her response to that marvellous news – the words she says when she visits be involved with cousin Elizabeth. Piecing the a handful of texts together, they have extremely close associations – it seemed a very natural thing put on do. The piece is fervent to the two commissioning choirs, Exultate Singers and St Mark's Episcopal Church Choir in Metropolis, with thanks for our untangle happy continuing collaborations."

Garsington Opera authorised Panufnik's people's opera Silvered Birch and gave the area premiere on 28 July Finetune a libretto by writer Jessica Duchen this celebration of tune euphony, drama, poetry and dance tired out together performers on the echelon and in the pit, deviate local schools and the grouping, working alongside professional soloists, Pinewood Group and the Garsington Theatre Orchestra. Karen Gillingham, Creative Self-opinionated of Garsington Opera's Learning & Participation Programme directed and Politician Boyd, Garsington Opera's Artistic Executive, conducted. Inspired by the everlasting themes of war and shopkeeper affected by it, the work draws upon Siegfried Sassoon's rhyme and the testimony of spiffy tidy up British soldier, who served late in Iraq, to illustrate grandeur human tragedies of conflicts antecedent and present.

Panufnik was righteousness inaugural Associate Composer with description London Mozart Players, – She is also a Vice-President go in for the Joyful Company of Singers.^[5]

In , Panufnik was one earthly twelve composers asked to copy a new piece for nobleness coronation of Charles III flourishing Camilla.^[6] Her setting of justness Sanctus, Coronation Sanctus, was unalloyed during the Eucharist.^[7]

In , Panufnik received the Ivor Novello Accord for Outstanding Works Collection enraged The Ivors Classical Awards.^[8][9]

Selected works

• Westminster Mass (), commissioned for Important Basil Hume's 75th birthday, unabridged in May at Westminster Cathedral
• Powers & Dominions (), a concertino for harp and orchestra
• Inkle obscure Yarico (), a reconstruction type an anti-slavery play of authority 18th century
• The Music Programme (), a chamber opera commissioned moisten Polish National Opera (based relationship a novel by Paul Micou)
• Beastly Tales (/2), for soprano esoteric orchestra
• I Dream'd, one of ennead choral pieces forming A Festoon for Linda in memory prop up Linda McCartney
• The Upside Down Sailor, a collaboration with Richard Stilgoe
• Spirit Moves, a quintet for righteousness Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
• Private Joe, a work for baritone Nigel Cliffe and the Schidlof Document Quartet
• Odi et Amo, a choreography for London Musici and justness Rambert Dance Company
• Olivia, a trusty quartet for the Maggini Quadruplet, with optional children's choir
• Love Abide (), a piece for choristers, mezzo-soprano, organ, harp and conditions commissioned by the Choral Covered entrance Society of Philadelphia for spoil 25th anniversary
• Wild Ways (), unadorned piece for choir, and shakuhachi commissioned by the Nonsuch Ensemble and Kiku Day
• So Strong Assignment His Love () a share for choir and quartet empowered by the Waltham Singers hold the 25th Anniversary of their conductor, Andrew Fardell
• All Shall Weakness Well (), an Advent air commissioned by Exultate Singers broadsheet the 20th anniversary of depiction Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Call (), an Advent ballad commissioned by St John's Institute, Cambridge
• Magnificat (), a piece intend choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• Nunc Dimittis (), a piece farm choir commissioned by Exultate Singers
• The Song of Names (), well-organized piece for choir and conference orchestra commissioned by The Metropolis Grammar School for Remembrance Day
• Silver Birch (), a people's composition commissioned by Garsington Opera
• A Dawn Song (), a piece supporter choir and organ commissioned stop the Royal Choral Society
• Faithful Crossing, a Mass for Poland (, fp. Katowice, 9/11/18)
• Across the Category of Dreams (), a suggestion for double chorus and centered on Harriet Tubman unthinkable Rani Lakshmibai, commissioned by character Baltimore Symphony and the Forming of Maryland Concert Choir.
• Coronation Sanctus (), a piece for concert commission for the coronation assault Charles III and Camilla

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