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Jocelyn Pook (/dsln pk/; born 14 February

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1960) is an English composer, pianist and viola

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1 Life and career
2 Miscellaneous

Occupation Composer, pianist and viola

player
Spouse(s)

Dragan Aleksic[1]

3 Discography
3.1 Studio albums

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3.2 Albums with ensembles

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3.3 Live theatre

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3.4 Soundtracks (film and TV)

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3.5 Singles

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14 February 1960 (age 55)

Birmingham, England

3.6 Various collaborations

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Life and career

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Jocelyn Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she
studied the viola. She performed with many pop artists including The Communards and Massive
Attack, and formed Electra Strings together with Sonia Slany for whom she wrote original
material.[4] She has worked extensively with eminent dance companies such as DV8 and Shobana
Jeyasingh, and in 2002 she was commissioned by The Proms to write a work for The King's
Singers in collaboration with Andrew Motion.

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Pook recorded on two occasions with pianist Jeremy Peyton Jones for Rough Trade and later for

Franais

Century XXI. About a year later, she joined Anne Stephenson and Audrey Riley to accompany

Virginia Astley both on stage and record. Session work followed and alternated with her co-

Italiano

founding of the Electra Strings with Australian violinist Sonia Slany and an album on the Village

Polski

Life label. This neoclassical chamber quartet later transformed into the Brilliant Strings after she

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and Slany had gone their separate ways.

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As a solo recording artist, Pook released several albums. These included Deluge (1997), Flood
(1999) and Untold Things (2003).
Her career as a film composer took flight when cuts from her album Flood were used in Stanley
Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. The piece Masked Ball,[5] which incorporates a fragment of an
Orthodox Liturgy played backwards and lyrics sung (or chanted) in Romanian, underscored the
masked ball sequence.[6][7]
Further scores have subsequently been contributed

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Further scores have subsequently been contributed

to several European films, notably the 2004 film
version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of
Venice, Peter Kosminsky's film on David Kelly, The
Government Inspector, Brick Lane and 2007's
Catica Ana.[8][9]
Pook was commissioned to write a short opera,

Cuts from Jocelyn's album Flood were

used in film Eyes Wide Shut

Ingerland,[10] for ROH2 (the contemporary producing

arm of London's Royal Opera House) which was
performed in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio
Theatre in June 2010.[11]

On 3 December 2012 her work "Hearing Voices", was performed in premiere by Melanie
Pappenheim with Charles Hazlewood conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall in a concert on the theme of hysteria.[12] In June 2014 the English National Ballet
made their Glastonbury debut

on the iconic the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday morning with their

performance of Akram Khan's First World War-themed Dust, with Music composed by Jocelyn
Pook. The performance was broadcast by the BBC

Miscellaneous

on BBC2.

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In 1983 Jocelyn appeared in the ABC movie Mantrap as one of many string players for the album
The Lexicon of Love.[13]
Pook frequently works with vocalist Melanie Pappenheim.

Discography
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Studio albums [edit]

1997 Deluge
1999 Flood
2001 Untold Things

Albums with ensembles [edit]

1997 Meeting Electra Electra Strings & Paul Clarvis (with Sonia Slany) Village Life 97121
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Live theatre [edit]

2012 Desh For the dancework of the group Akram Khan (dancer)

Soundtracks (film and TV) [edit]

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 tu mon pre (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 La Repentie (The Repentant)
2002 La Guerre Paris (The War in Paris)
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2003 Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese

2004 The Merchant of Venice
2004 Wild Side
2004 The Staircase
2004 They Came Back
2005 The Government Inspector
20052006 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 Heading South
2010 Room in Rome
2011 Room 304
2012 Augustine
2012 Les Invisibles

Singles [edit]
1997 "Blow The Wind" Virgin Records
2003 "Sacrum" (12-inch) Additive

Various collaborations [edit]

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
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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 Something Dangerous Natacha Atlas ("Adam's Lullaby") Mantra Records

Awards and honours

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British Composer Award nomination (Stage Works, 2012) for DESH

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
BAFTA TV Award nomination (Best Original TV Music, 2006) for The Government Inspector
Classical BRIT Award nomination (Soundtrack Composer, 2005) for The Merchant of Venice
British Composer Award (Multi-Media, 2003) for Speaking in Tunes
ASCAP Award for Eyes Wide Shut
CFCA Award nomination (Best Original Score, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut
Golden Globe nomination (Best Original Score Motion Picture, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut
OFCS Award nomination (Best Original Score, 2000) for Eyes Wide Shut

References

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1. ^ Biography of Pook
2. ^ Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database
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3. ^ Untold Things
4. ^ Jocelyn Pook's homepage at Chester Music
5. ^ Kubricks Approval Sets Seal on Classical Crossover Success: Pook's Unique Musical Mix
International Herald Tribune
6. ^ Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film by Phil Powrie, Robynn Jeananne Stilwell
7. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Eyes Wide Shut" . Allmusic. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
8. ^ Albums of Pook
9. ^ Catica Ana.
10. ^ Jocelyn Pook on her football opera, Ingerland
11. ^ O'Mahony, John. "Operas about wags? Why not, says the Royal Opera House" . The Guardian,
10 June 2010.
12. ^ Standard.co.uk
13. ^ Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database

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at the Internet Movie Database

WorldCat VIAF: 76516653 LCCN: nr96023776 ISNI: 0000 0000 8157 0099
GND: 135133009 MusicBrainz: 7018122c-11ee-4687-b711-48bab2e6a490

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