Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik, of Polish background, has become one of contemporary Britain's most popular composers, with several major commemorative works that have gained wide exposure. Panufnik is the daughter of Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik. She was born in London on April 24, 1968, attended school there, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Some of her first pieces, such as Modlitwa do Matki Boskiej Skepskiej (Prayer to the Virgin of Skempe), for chorus and piano, were written in collaboration with her father, but by the mid-1990s she had emerged from his shadow. Her West...