Paul K. Joyce

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Paul K. Joyce
Birth namePaul Kevin Joyce
BornJuly 1957 (age 66)
Occupation(s)
arranger and conductor
Years active1990–present

Paul Kevin Joyce (born July 1957)

Clay. He wrote "Can We Fix It?", the theme song to the children's television programme Bob the Builder
that became the bestselling single of 2000 in the UK and Australia.

Early life

He attended Hall Park Technical Grammar School in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where he was head boy in 1975. From Trent Polytechnic, he gained a BSc in Applied Biology.

Career

Earlier in his career, Joyce was a member of

hit in France with their single
, "Jamie". The band released their only album, Hold On, in 1983.

His first television work was the animation Coconuts (ITV 1990).

Ivor Novello Award on 24 May 2001.[3]

Joyce also composes for theatre, notably for a staging of

Barbican Hall (2003), Cadogan Hall (2004), and the Hall for Cornwall (2011). A dramatized television production of The Snow Queen featuring Joyce's music was commissioned by the BBC; it premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day in 2005 and proved to be the most popular children's show of the year.[4]

He collaborated with

Steve Howe on Howe's solo album Time, released November 2011 on Warner Classics.[5]

Joyce co-executive produced a feature film script based on Non-Stop, the science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. He developed an adaptation of the life story of war correspondent, Clare Hollingworth, known for scooping the beginning of the Second World War in 1939. In 2019, Joyce premiered a new contemporary orchestral work, Celestial,[6] of songs and music featuring the poems of the late Johnnie Douglas-Pennant.[7] Celestial is narrated by actor Michael Sheen and features Steve Howe on guitar and soundscapes by Chris Watson.

In 2020, Howe asked Joyce to contribute orchestrations to a new Yes album, The Quest, where he worked with the FAMES orchestra.[8] A 2021 commission from the British Medical Association to compose a work to honour all health care workers who died during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in "We Will Remember, We Can't Forget", featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Burntwood School Chamber Choir and soloists.[9] Joyce was a guest speaker at the Soundsgate Composers' Summit in Prague in April 2022[10] and, in May, was recording with the FAMES orchestra in Skopje. Joyce and the FAMES orchestra again worked on Yes's next album, due 2023, Mirror to the Sky.

References

  1. ^ "Paul Kevin JOYCE - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Did he write it? Yes Paul did! The Herald, 15 Aug 2009". Thisisplymouth.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ^ Paul K Joyce - Bob the Builder Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Archived copy". www.thesnowqueenpkj.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2003. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Home page | Warner Classics". Warnerclassics.com. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Celestial". Spotify. 15 November 2019.
  7. ^ Jardine, Cassandra (4 December 2006). "'Johnnie was our shaft of joy'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Dreams can come true".
  9. ^ "We Will Remember (We Can't Forget) - memorial". British Medical Association. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Composers Summit Prague 2022".

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