Hello dear listener! Welcome to our first episode of 2025, in which you find us having a much needed catch up in the foyer of the National Theatre. We really had not chatted for ages, so before we get going with interviews again, we had a lot to get through. And we basically covered every topic, from Verity's current job playing in Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse, to Seb's Christmas gig with Rob Brydon, to New Year's resolutions, both of their marathon journeys, and plans for the podcast this year.

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Welcome to a special episode recorded guerilla style at the Ivors Classical Awards 2024! You may have heard our previous two pods with Ivors Special Award winners, Roxanna Panufnik and Gavin Bryars - this is a very different beast…

Featuring special guest presenter James Flannery who steps into Seb’s shoes and makes his podcasting debut, this is a rampage around the BFI with odd snippets of chat and composers a plenty.

You might catch journalist Stephen Pritchard, composers Duncan McLeod and Roxanna Panufnik, violinist Tasmin Little and friends of the pod Lizzie Ball and Hattie Butterworth amongst others. Brace yourselves, buckle up and enjoy this weird and wonderful evening at the Ivors!

Stephen Pritchard’s excellent article for Bachtrack featuring Seb & Verity; https://bachtrack.com/feature-freelance-life-orchestra-pit-seb-philpott-verity-simmons-november-2024

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In the second of our Ivors classical awards special episodes we chat to world renowned and celebrated composer Roxanna Panufnik.

As we air this interview, Roxanna has just been presented with the Ivors special award for ‘outstanding works collection’…And outstanding it truly is! She is particularly recognized for her choral works, including Faithful Journey - A Mass for Poland, Four Choral Seasons, and Coronation Sanctus for the coronation of King Charles the Third.

Roxanna has a great passion for world music and her Four World Seasons was written for violinist Tasmin Little - who also happened to present her with her award this week.

Roxanna has done much groundbreaking work in writing music that builds bridges between faiths. Her violin concerto Abraham incorporates Christian, Islamic and Jewish chant.

We chatted to Roxanna about collecting her first Ivor (unbelievably!), composing for the King, the emotions of reworking some of her father‘s Polish folk songs, and the sensitivity required in composing interfaith music.

Roxanna also talks about how she accidentally discovered Catholicism and gives us an insight into her compositional process.

We are hugely grateful to Roxanna for sparing some time on an extremely busy week and for being such a joyous guest!

To read more about Roxanna, visit https://roxannapanufnik.com/

Listen to her Coronation Sanctus here; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ap54z0xsms0

For more on the Ivors Classical Awards 2024 visit https://ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-ivors-classical-awards/

Big thanks to Premier for setting up the interview.

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