Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook | |
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Born | Birmingham, England |
Occupation(s) | Composer, viola player |
Jocelyn Pook (/ˈdʒɒslɪn ˈpʊk/, rhyming with "book") is a composer who is known for her scores for many films, including Eyes Wide Shut, The Merchant of Venice and The Wife.
Education
Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied the viola with David Takeno and piano with Carola Grindea.
Career
Pook took part in the band
As a composer her early works were mainly for dance and she wrote scores for DV8 Physical Theatre, O Vertigo Danse, Wayne MacGregor, Phoenix Dance Company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance[1] and more recently Akram Khan Company and English National Ballet. She worked on several DV8 Physical Theatre shows including Strange Fish which won a Prix Italia Award for Music.
Pook was a member of composer Jeremy Peyton Jones's post systems music ensemble Regular Music, and recorded their albums for Rough Trade and Century XXI. She co-founded neoclassical chamber quartet Electra Strings alongside Australian violinist Sonia Slany. The Electra Quartet recorded, arranged and performed with many artists including Jools Holland,[2][3] Mark Knopfler,[4] The Stranglers,[5] The Cranberries,[6] This Mortal Coil,[7] Nick Cave, Divine Comedy , Paul Weller,[8] Ryuichi Sakamoto,[9] Michael Nyman and Laurie Anderson,[10][11] and in 1991 appeared in Derek Jarman's film Edward II.[6]
As a solo recording artist, Pook released several albums, including Deluge (Virgin Records 1997), Flood (Virgin Records 1999) and Untold Things (RealWorld Records 2001 - 2013). These also featured several singers she works regularly with, notably Melanie Pappenheim with whom she has collaborated with on many projects.
Her career as a film composer took off when
Pook's score to
In 2018, she composed the soundtrack for The Wife[19] starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater, which won the 2019 Music & Sound Award for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film.[20]
Pook was nominated for a
Pook wrote several concert, music theatre and opera pieces as well as touring with "The Jocelyn Pook Ensemble".
In 2002 she was commissioned by
Pook won a second British Composer Award in 2012 for her soundtrack to
She won an
In 2019, Pook was commissioned by
Politics
In November 2019, along with other public figures, Pook signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.[35]
Awards and honours
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- Music and Sound Award (Best Original Composition, 2019) for the Wife
- Bafta (Original Music, 2018) for King Charles III
- 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
- British Composer Award (Multi-Media, 2003) for Speaking in Tunes
- ASCAP Award for Eyes Wide Shut
Discography
Studio albums
- 1997 – Deluge
- 1999 – Flood
- 2001 – Untold Things
Singles
- 1997 – "Blow The Wind" – Virgin Records
- 2003 – "Sacrum" (12 – inch) – Additive
Albums with ensembles
- 1997 – Meeting Electra – Electra Strings & Paul Clarvis (with Sonia Slany) – Village Life 97121 VL
Live theatre and dance
- 2018 – Memorial – For Chris Drummond, the director of 'Memorial'
- 2017 – Adam – For National Theatre of Scotland
- 2016 – Macbeth – For Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
- 2014 – King Charles III – For Almeida Theatre
- 2014 – Dust – For the dancework of the English National Ballet (choreographed by Akram Khan)
- 2013 – Itmoi – For the dancework of the group Akram Khan
- 2013 – Bench – For MODERNE MEISJES
- 2011 – Desh – For the dancework of the group Akram Khan
- 2006 – King John – For the Royal Shakespeare Company
Soundtracks (film and TV)
- 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 tué mon père (How I Killed My Father)
- 2001 – In a Land of Plenty – 10 episode BBC drama series produced by Sterling Pictures and Talkback
- 2001 – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures – documentary, director Jan Harlan
- 2001 – L'Emploi Du Temps (Time Out)
- 2002 – Addicted to the Stars
- 2002 – The Repentant (La Repentie)
- 2002 – La Guerre à Paris (The War in Paris)
- 2002 – Gangs of New York – directed by Martin Scorsese
- 2004 – The Merchant of Venice
- 2004 – Wild Side
- 2004 – Soupçons(The Staircase)
- 2004 – They Came Back
- 2005 – The Government Inspector
- 2005–2006 – 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 – Going South
- 2010 – Room in Rome
- 2011 – Room 304
- 2012 – Augustine
- 2012 – Les Invisibles
- 2017 – King Charles III
- 2017 – The Wife
- 2019 – The Kingmaker
- 2023 – Tin&Tina
Various collaborations
- 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
- 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) – Peter Gabriel – ("Low Light", "The Time of the Turning", "The Weaver's Reel", "Downside Up", "The Nest that Sailed the Sky") – Real World Records
- 2003 – Mantra Records
- 2008 – Ana Hina – Natacha Atlas – World Village[36]
References
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- ^ "Music+Sound Awards 2019 winners revealed - M Magazine". Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
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- ^ "Original Music - JOCELYN POOK, King Charles III". Bafta.org. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ "Jocelyn Pook scores 'The Staircase' (Netflix) - Cool Music". Coolmusicltd.com. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ "Archive | The Ivors Composer Awards". Ivorsacademy.com. Retrieved 23 April 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ John O'Mahony. "Jocelyn Pook on her football opera, Ingerland | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ O'Mahony, John. "Operas about wags? Why not, says the Royal Opera House". The Guardian, 10 June 2010.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Archive | The Ivors Composer Awards". Ivorsacademy.com. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "English National Ballet - She Said - Sadler's Wells Theatre". Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "Olivier Winners 2008". Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
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- ^ "Proms 2019 Prom 49: The Lost Words - BBC Proms". BBC. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ "Jocelyn Pook Scoring Lauren Greenfield's 'The Kingmaker'". Filmmusicreporter.com. 28 August 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ Neale, Matthew (16 November 2019). "Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more". NME. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ "Jocelyn Pook". Songlines. April–May 2013. p. 10.
External links
- Official website
- Jocelyn Pook at IMDb