She has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, including The Communards, Laurie Anderson, Massive Attack, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Peter Gabriel.

Film

Jocelyn’s scores for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Laurent Cantet’s Time Out (L’emploi du temps) have established her as a highly original composer of screen music. Dionysus, the first track on her CD Untold Things, features in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Jocelyn has scored several French feature films including Comment J’ai tue mon pere, directed by Anne Fontaine and La Repentie starring Isabelle Adjani and directed by Laetitia Masson. More recent film scores have included Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice (2004) starring Al Pacino, Sebastian Lifshitz’s Wild Side (2004) and a remake of the classic Heidi (2005).

              

Jocelyn has written the score for the Spanish film Chaotic Ana, the film was released in Spain in August, as yet no UK release date.


Jocelyn's latest project Brick Lane is set for a UK cinema release on the 18th November. Jocelyn Pook is the sole composer for this film, in addition to the score two Pook tracks Adam's Lullaby and Meeting of Hands were placed by Music Sales in the film. The soundtrack will be released to coincide with the film's release. The film is based on the best selling book by Monica Ali and has been greeted with critical acclaim at pre-screenings.

TV

Jocelyn has written extensively for television. Credits include her RTS nominated score to Granada's The Butterfly Collectors, S4C's Saints and Sinners, a six-part documentary on the history of the papacy which was shown in more than twenty countries, and the major BBC2 ten-part drama In a Land of Plenty in 1991 which she co-wrote with Harvey Brough. In 2004 Jocelyn was commissioned as composer for The Government Inspector, Peter Kosminsky’s drama-documentary for Channel 4, the story of the late Dr David Kelly and the events leading to the invasion of Iraq.

Currently in post production is Everest, based on the story of the first Canadians to reach the peak of Mount Everest.

     

Advertising

Jocelyn has provided original music for Enron and Visa advertising campaigns and her 1994 piece Blow the Wind /Pie Jesu, a setting of Kathleen Ferrier’s Blow the Wind Southerly against the contemporary voice of Melanie Pappenheim, became a crossover hit when it was used by Orange for their TV advertising campaign in 1997.

Compositions / Performances

Jocelyn has an extremely busy career as a composer for live performance. She has toured the UK, Italy, Germany and the USA, performing her own music with the Jocelyn Pook Ensemble.

She has also enjoyed many collaborations with choreographers writing a series of works for DV8 Physical Theatre in the early 1990s and more recently for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and the Phoenix Dance Theatre.

In 2002 she was commissioned by the BBC Proms to write a new work with Poet Laureate Andrew Motion for The King's Singers. Future projects include commissions for the Hilliard Ensemble, Andreas Scholl, the choreographer Russell Maliphant and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

External Websites

www.jocelynpook.com/