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Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a Scottish composer currently resident in London.

Weir's musical language is fairly conservative in its mechanics, but her ear for sonority and effect, and ability to make simple ideas sound fresh, makes her work free of modern-music clichés, while at the same time being interesting, approachable and communicative. Her operatic musical writing is sometimes compared to Britten's. As well as some "micro-operas", she has composed the full-length operas A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom, Blond Eckbert, and recently, in co-operation with Margaret Williams, Armida, an opera for television.

Commissioned works most notably include woman.life.song for Jessye Norman and We are Shadows for Simon Rattle.

From 1995 to 2000 she was the Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival in London. She held the post of Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998. In 1997 she received the Lincoln Center's Stoeger Prize.

According to The Independent newspaper, "Judith Weir has brought new hope to those who thought modern music could never be tuneful and original".

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