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Jocelyn Pook

Jocelyn PookBorn 14 February 1960 (age 55)

Birmingham, England

Occupation Composer, pianist and violaplayer

Spouse(s) Dragan Aleksic[1]

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Jocelyn Pook (/dsln pk/; born 14 February

1960) is an English composer, pianist and viola

player.[2][3]

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1 Life and career

2 Miscellaneous

3 Discography3.1 Studio albums

3.2 Albums with ensembles

3.3 Live theatre

3.4 Soundtracks (film and TV)

3.5 Singles

3.6 Various collaborations

4 Awards and honours

5 References

6 External links

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Life and career [edit]Jocelyn Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she

studied the viola. She performed with many pop artists including The Communards and Massive

Attack, and formed Electra Strings together with Sonia Slany for whom she wrote original

material.[4] She has worked extensively with eminent dance companies such as DV8 and Shobana

Jeyasingh, and in 2002 she was commissioned by The Proms to write a work for The King's

Singers in collaboration with Andrew Motion.

Pook recorded on two occasions with pianist Jeremy Peyton Jones for Rough Trade and later for

Century XXI. About a year later, she joined Anne Stephenson and Audrey Riley to accompany

Virginia Astley both on stage and record. Session work followed and alternated with her co-

founding of the Electra Strings with Australian violinist Sonia Slany and an album on the Village

Life label. This neoclassical chamber quartet later transformed into the Brilliant Strings after she

and Slany had gone their separate ways.

As a solo recording artist, Pook released several albums. These included Deluge (1997), Flood

(1999) and Untold Things (2003).

Her career as a film composer took flight when cuts from her album Flood were used in Stanley

Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. The piece Masked Ball,[5] which incorporates a fragment of an

Orthodox Liturgy played backwards and lyrics sung (or chanted) in Romanian, underscored the

masked ball sequence.[6][7]

Further scores have subsequently been contributed

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Cuts from Jocelyn's album Flood wereused in film Eyes Wide Shut

Further scores have subsequently been contributed

to several European films, notably the 2004 film

version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of

Venice, Peter Kosminsky's film on David Kelly, The

Government Inspector, Brick Lane and 2007's

Catica Ana.[8][9]

Pook was commissioned to write a short opera,

Ingerland,[10] for ROH2 (the contemporary producing

arm of London's Royal Opera House) which was

performed in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio

Theatre in June 2010.[11]

On 3 December 2012 her work "Hearing Voices", was performed in premiere by Melanie

Pappenheim with Charles Hazlewood conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen

Elizabeth Hall in a concert on the theme of hysteria.[12] In June 2014 the English National Ballet

made their Glastonbury debut on the iconic the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday morning with their

performance of Akram Khan's First World War-themed Dust, with Music composed by Jocelyn

Pook. The performance was broadcast by the BBC on BBC2.

Miscellaneous [edit]In 1983 Jocelyn appeared in the ABC movie Mantrap as one of many string players for the album

The Lexicon of Love.[13]

Pook frequently works with vocalist Melanie Pappenheim.

Discography [edit]

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Studio albums [edit]

1997 Deluge

1999 Flood

2001 Untold Things

Albums with ensembles [edit]

1997 Meeting Electra Electra Strings & Paul Clarvis (with Sonia Slany) Village Life 97121VL

Live theatre [edit]

2012 Desh For the dancework of the group Akram Khan (dancer)

Soundtracks (film and TV) [edit]

1994-6 Blight 14-minute short film by John Smith

1999 Eyes Wide Shut directed by Stanley Kubrick

2000 My Khmer Heart (Breaking Hearts)

2000 The Sight directed by Paul Anderson

2000 Enron advert, "Ode to Why Campaign"

2000 Comment j'ai tu mon pre (How I Killed My Father)

2001 In a Land of Plenty 10 episode BBC drama series produced by Sterling Pictures andTalkback

2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures documentary, director Jan Harlan

2001 L'Emploi Du Temps (Time Out)

2002 Addicted to the Stars

2002 La Repentie (The Repentant)

2002 La Guerre Paris (The War in Paris)

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2003 Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese

2004 The Merchant of Venice

2004 Wild Side

2004 The Staircase

2004 They Came Back

2005 The Government Inspector

20052006 Heidi

2007 Brick Lane

2007 Remnants of Everest: The 1996 Tragedy (US: Storm over Everest)

2009 The People v. Leo Frank

2009 Chaotic Ana

2009 Heading South

2010 Room in Rome

2011 Room 304

2012 Augustine

2012 Les Invisibles

Singles [edit]

1997 "Blow The Wind" Virgin Records

2003 "Sacrum" (12-inch) Additive

Various collaborations [edit]

1993 Plus from US various artists Real World Records

1993 Way Down Buffalo Hell Jam Nation ("Sleeping, She Moved Through The Fair") Real World Records

1996 A Night in London Mark Knopfler Mercury Records

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1997 Friday the Thirteenth The Stranglers ("Waltz in Black", "Valley of the Birds","Daddy's Riding the Range", "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes")

1999 Liquid Sunshine Keziah Jones ("Hello Heavenly", "Runaway", "Teardrops Will Fall") Delabel

2000 OVO (The soundtrack for the Millennium Dome Show of Cirque du Soleil) PeterGabriel ("Low Light", "The Time of the Turning", "The Weaver's Reel", "Downside Up", "TheNest that Sailed the Sky") Real World Records

2003 Something Dangerous Natacha Atlas ("Adam's Lullaby") Mantra Records

Awards and honours [edit]British Composer Award nomination (Stage Works, 2012) for DESH

Special Mention of the Jury, Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Best Music, 2011) for Room 304

Olivier Award (Best Music and Sound Design, 2008) for St Joan

ASCAP Award for Brick Lane

BAFTA TV Award nomination (Best Original TV Music, 2006) for The Government Inspector

Classical BRIT Award nomination (Soundtrack Composer, 2005) for The Merchant of Venice

British Composer Award (Multi-Media, 2003) for Speaking in Tunes

ASCAP Award for Eyes Wide Shut

CFCA Award nomination (Best Original Score, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut

Golden Globe nomination (Best Original Score Motion Picture, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut

OFCS Award nomination (Best Original Score, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut

References [edit]1. ^ Biography of Pook2. ^ Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database

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3. ^ Untold Things4. ^ Jocelyn Pook's homepage at Chester Music5. ^ Kubricks Approval Sets Seal on Classical Crossover Success: Pook's Unique Musical Mix

International Herald Tribune6. ^ Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film by Phil Powrie, Robynn Jeananne Stilwell7. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Eyes Wide Shut" . Allmusic. Retrieved 22 October 2012.8. ^ Albums of Pook9. ^ Catica Ana.

10. ^ Jocelyn Pook on her football opera, Ingerland11. ^ O'Mahony, John. "Operas about wags? Why not, says the Royal Opera House" . The Guardian,

10 June 2010.12. ^ Standard.co.uk13. ^ Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database

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Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database

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Categories: 1960 births Living people English film score composers English violists

Virgin Records artists Female film score composers Real World Records artists

People from Birmingham, West Midlands Female composers

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