Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook (born February 14, 1960 in Birmingham ) is an English composer and violinist .
Life
After graduating from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama , she performed with numerous pop musicians, including The Communards , Massive Attack and Peter Gabriel , and founded Electra Strings , for which she composed material. She has worked frequently with major dance groups such as DV8 and Shobana Jeyasingh . Important films are Michael Radford's version of The Merchant of Venice and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut .
In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.
Works (excerpt)
- 1994: Blow the Wind: Pie Jesu (mezzo-soprano, string quartet, tape)
- 1999: Portraits in Absentia (answering machine messages, orchestra)
- 2000: Saints and Sinners (Persian chant, choir)
- 2002: Speaking in Tunes (string quartet, tape)
Discography (excerpt)
- Deluge - Venture CDVE 933
- Untold Things - Real World CDRW93
- The Merchant of Venice - Soundtrack - Decca 475 6367
Filmography (selection)
- 1999: Eyes Wide Shut
- 2000: The Sight
- 2001: kill father! (Comment j'ai tué mon père)
- 2001: Time out (L'emploi du temps)
- 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (episode "Addicted to the Stars")
- 2004: The Returned (Les Revenants)
- 2004: David Kelly - The Government Inspector
- 2004: The Merchant of Venice (The Merchant of Venice)
- 2004: Wild Side
- 2005: Heidi
- 2007: Brick Lane
- 2007: Caótica Ana
- 2007: Everest - Race to Death (Everest)
- 2009: Plein Sud - On the way south (Plein Sud)
- 2010: One night in Rome (Habitación en Roma)
- 2012: The invisibles (Les invisibles)
- 2012: Augustine
- 2017: King Charles III
- 2017: The wife of Nobel Prize winner (The Wife)
Web links
- Official website
- Jocelyn Pook. Page at Chester Music
- Jocelyn Pook on MusicBrainz (English)
- Jocelyn Pook in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ruhlmann, William: Eyes Wide Shut . Allmusic . Retrieved October 22, 2012.
- ↑ Class of 2017 . oscars.org; accessed on June 30, 2017..
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pook, Jocelyn |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British composer and violinist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |