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It's time to celebrate International Women's Day, and alongside a number of fantastic programmes on BBC Radio 3, which is playing wo...

Roxanna Panufnik and I have been working on our first collaboration since Silver Birch. It's being premiered this week in Baltimore unde...

Deck the halls with chocolate silver,  Falalalalaaaah, meow me-ow... If you've been reading JDCMB for a while, you'll know...

Some years back Roxanna Panufnik was asked to write a choral work mixing the Latin Mass with a selection of Estonian poems. The result wa...

Roxanna Panufnik takes a bow. Photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC Well, we needn't have worried. What usually happens at the Last Night o...

I've done an interview for SWAP'ra , the new charity which aims to change the opera world to make it more user-friendly, all rou...

It's the Proms launch today and the great news is that the Last Night commission goes to our very own Roxanna Panufnik! Roxanna rule...

Pop over to the BBC Arts website and experience the story behind Silver Birch , the opera by Roxanna Panufnik and muggins for Garsington Ope...

Curtain calls...in front, Roxanna (right) and me, with Jay Wheeler in the middle I've been away since just after the last night of ...

And here she is: our SILVER BIRCH composer, the fabulous Roxanna Panufnik. You've heard a lot from me already about the words and the...

Sam Furness as Jack, in Iraq shirt; Bradley Travis as Siegfried in WWI uniform We had the dress rehearsal yesterday. Today everybody ge...

Here's Garsington's introduction to Silver Birch, with director Karen Gillingham, conductor Douglas Boyd and choreographer Natasha ...

Baritone Bradley Travis in rehearsal as Siegfried Sassoon What are the chances of this? You turn up to an adult community chorus works...