Film Scores

Jocelyn Pook’s most recent score is for Julio Medem’s new film Chaotic Ana, released in Spain on 24th August 2007. Medem is best known for the films Sex And Lucia and Lovers Of The Arctic Circle. He approached Jocelyn to write the score for Chaotic Ana after hearing her album Untold Things. The film contains an outstanding performance by newcomer Manuela Vellés as Ana, and also features Charlotte Rampling. Jocelyn’s score includes the voices of Melanie Pappenheim, Parvin Cox and Dessislava Stefanova among others. A soundtrack CD will be released in Spain in early September. www.sogecine-sogepaq.com/caoticaana

Jocelyn has also composed the music for the new feature film Brick Lane. Shot on location in and around Brick Lane in East London, the film is based on Monica Ali’s award-winning novel and is directed by Sarah Gavron, with Tannishtha Chatterjee as the principal character Nazneen. It will be released in the UK in late November 2007. Jocelyn’s soundtrack score features the voices of Natacha Atlas, Manickam Yogeswaran and Najma Akhtar. A CD release is also planned for late November 2007.

Theatre Music

The Royal National Theatre production of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan has just opened at the Olivier Theatre at the South Bank in London. With Anne-Marie Duff in the title role, director Marianne Elliott commissioned Jocelyn to write a score for a small instrumental ensemble and voices, which is played live by members of the Jocelyn Pook Ensemble – Melanie Pappenheim, Kelly McCusker and Harvey Brough – with woodwind player Belinda Sykes and cellist Laura Moody. The production runs in repertory at the Olivier, with forty performances between mid-July and the end of September. More details at www.nationaltheatre.org.uk and a preview video at www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/stjoan.

 

2006

Jocelyn Pook's score for The Government Inspector (Channel 4, 2005) was nominated for the Original Television Music award in this year's British Academy Television Craft Awards. The Government Inspector won Best Single Drama and Best Actor in the British Academy Television Awards.

Jocelyn Pook's piece Arsenal, adapted from Portraits in Absentia, was performed on Wednesday 12th April and Thursday 13th April 2006 by The Juilliard Electric Ensemble, directed by Edward Bilous, in a programme titled Beyond The Machine 06 at the Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center Plaza. Two evenings of Electronic and Interactive Music presented by the Juilliard Technology Center also included pieces by J. Brendan Adamson, Joan La Barbara, Eric Chasalow, Gareth  Flowers, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Alejandro Vinao and David Wallace.

On Tuesday 25th April 2006 on BBC Radio 4, Jocelyn Pook appeared in How To Live by Bobby Baker, directed by Marilyn Imrie, with associate director Polonah Balloh Brown. Performance artist Bobby Baker introduced her unique life changing therapy, with the help of one of her patients, and the radio audience, who needed to be poised, with a frozen pea in hand, to join in. Jocelyn was the small voice of the patient, who has learned the benefits of this life changing therapy. She also composed the music and performed it with Harvey Brough, Will Gressford and Melanie Pappenheim.

Jocelyn Pook's score for The Merchant of Venice, directed by Michael Radford, with Al Pacino as Shylock and Jeremy Irons as Antonio. Jocelyn and Harvey Brough, her regular collaborator and co-producer, have brought together an outstanding group of early music instrumentalists, including recorder-player Pamela Thorby, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, triple-harp-player Siobhán Armstrong, percussionist Tristan Fry and members of His Majesty’s Sagbutts And Cornetts. The score also features a large string ensemble, led by David Juritz and a Baroque string quartet, led by Pavlo Besnosiuk. The distinguished counter-tenor Andreas Scholl sings Jocelyn's settings of texts by Shakespeare and John Milton, and Hayley Westenra sings Jocelyn's setting of Edgar Allan Poe's Bridal Ballad. All the music for the film is included in a new Decca CD.

Visit www.deccaclassics.com/soundtracks for more information about the CD. Visit www.themerchantofvenicemovie.co.uk or www.themerchantofvenicemovie.com for more information about the film.

Following their recent collaboration on the song "Adam's Lullaby", the first track on Natacha Atlas's latest album "Something Dangerous" - Jocelyn and Natacha have started to write a new set of songs for an album due to be released in 2004. More details will be posted here later this year.