Jocelyn Pook

After completing her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, violinist and contemporary classical composer Jocelyn Pook spent three years touring with the Communards. Her range expanded through involvement in Derek Jarman’s 1986 film masterpiece Caravaggio, after which she created the score for the 1988 DV8 Physical Theatre production My Body, Your Body. Throughout the following decade she maintained this dual focus, supplying music for Jarman’s Edward II, the BBC series Mad About Music, and John Smith’s short film Blight while also collaborating with pop artists such as Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, and Nick Cave through her Electra Strings project. In 1994 the Canadian dance company O Vertigo commissioned her to compose for the production Deluge, whose score appeared three years later on the album Flood. Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick later selected her to write the music for his final picture, 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut. Early 2001 brought the release of another solo album, Untold Things.