Rebecca Saunders
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish ex-pat New Music composer based in Germany (born 1967)
Rebecca Saunders is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin.
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Jörg WidmannAlso won Hindemith Prize
Klaus HuberAlso won Ernst von Siemens Music PrizeSally BeamishAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition)
Michael GielenAlso won Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Oliver KnussenAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition)
Michel van der AaAlso won Mauricio Kagel Music PrizeAbout this person
Rebecca Saunders is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, Saunders' compositions received the third highest total number of votes (30), surpassed only by the works of Georg Friedrich Haas (49) and Simon Steen-Andersen (35). In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked Skin (2016) the 16th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Tom Service writing that "Saunders burrows into the interior world of the instruments, and inside the grain of Fraser's voice [...] and finds a revelatory world of heightened feeling.". Her opera Lash - Acts of Love was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in mid-2025 to critical acclaim.
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