Judith Weir was born on 11 May 1954 and is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music.
13 Facts About Judith Weir
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Judith Weir studied with John Tavener while at the North London Collegiate School and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976.
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Judith Weir held the post of Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998.
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Judith Weir was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 Birthday Honours for services to music.
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Judith Weir received the Lincoln Center's Stoeger Prize in 1997, the South Bank Show music award in 2001 and the Incorporated Society of Musicians' Distinguished Musician Award in 2010.
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Judith Weir was a visiting distinguished research professor in composition at Cardiff University from 2006 to 2009.
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In May 2015, Judith Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards.
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Judith Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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Judith Weir's first stage work, The Black Spider, was a one-act opera which was premiered in Canterbury in 1985 loosely based on the short novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf.
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Judith Weir has subsequently written one more "micro-opera", three full-length operas, and an opera for television.
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In January 2008, Judith Weir was the focus of the BBC's annual composer weekend at the Barbican Centre in London.
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Judith Weir was commissioned to compose an a cappella work for the state funeral of Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022, and wrote a setting of Psalm 42, "Like as the hart".
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In 2023, Judith Weir was one of twelve composers asked to write a new piece for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.