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Rebecca Saunders
British ex-pat New Music composer based in Germany · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Born 1967 · age 58
Rebecca Saunders is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin.
Rebecca Saunders is read about 27 times a day, in 14 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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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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The same award as Rebecca
Jörg WidmannBoth received Hindemith Prize
Klaus HuberBoth received Ernst von Siemens Music PrizeSally BeamishBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition)
Michael GielenBoth received Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Oliver KnussenBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition)
Michel van der AaBoth received Mauricio Kagel Music Prize