Anjula Semmens began composing under the guidance of Sir David Lumsden in 2002, and went on to study with Dr David Knotts at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She is now a second year undergraduate on the BMus Course at Oxford University.
In 2007, she was mentored by Colin Matthews as part of LSO Discovery's Panufnik Scheme, and had her first orchestral piece workshopped by the London Symphony Orchestra. She has taken part in two SPNM Sound Inventor's courses, the Advanced Composition Course at Dartington International Summer School (with generous support from the RVW trust), and the St Magnus Festival Composition Course in Orkney.