Jocelyn Pook (, rhyming with "book"; born 14 February 1960) is an English composer and viola player. She is known for her scores for many films, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' The Wife''.

Education

Pook graduated in 1983 from London's

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where she studied the viola with David Takeno and piano with Carola Grindea.

Career

Pook took part in the band

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's Lexicon Of Love World Tour and appeared in the

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/ABC movie ''Mantrap'', continuing with a period of recording and performing with artists including

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and as a member of

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for their three-year life. She also performed in this period as musician/actor with experimental theatre companies Impact Theatre Co-operative and Lumiere & Son, as well as in several productions with The National Theatre. As a composer her early works were mainly for dance and she wrote scores for

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, O Vertigo Danse, Wayne MacGregor, Phoenix Dance Company,

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and more recently Akram Khan Company and

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. She worked on several

shows including Strange Fish which won a Prix Italia Award for Music. Pook was a member of composer Jeremy Peyton Jones's post systems music ensemble Regular Music, and recorded their albums for Rough Trade and Century XXI. She co-founded neoclassical chamber quartet Electra Strings alongside Australian violinist Sonia Slany. The Electra Quartet recorded, arranged and performed with many artists including

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and

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, and in 1991 appeared in

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's film ''

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''. As a solo recording artist, Pook released several albums, including Deluge (Virgin Records 1997), Flood (Virgin Records 1999) and Untold Things (RealWorld Records 2001 - 2013). These also featured several singers she works regularly with, notably

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with whom she has collaborated with on many projects. Her career as a film composer took off when

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heard her album Deluge and asked her to score his film ''

''. The piece “Masked Ball”, which incorporates a fragment of an Orthodox

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played backwards and lyrics sung (or chanted) in

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, underscored the masked ball sequence. Pook's score for ''

'' received a Chicago Film Award and a

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nomination. Pook's score to

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's film ''

'' with

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featured countertenor Andreas Scholl and was nominated for a

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. Other notable film scores include ''

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'' (Dir: Sarah Gavron), ''Heidi'' (Dir: Paul Marcus), ''Time Out'' (L’Emploi Du Temps, Dir: Laurent Cantet),

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's '' Caótica Ana'' and ''

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'', and a piece for the soundtrack to ''

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'' directed by

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. In 2018, she composed the soundtrack for '' The Wife'' starring

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and

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, which won the 2019 Music & Sound Award for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film. Pook was nominated for a BAFTA for her score for

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's ''

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'' and, in April 2018, she won a BAFTA for her music for the 2017 TV film version of ''King Charles III'' (Dir: Rupert Gould). She wrote the score for Netflix documentary series ''The Staircase'' directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade. Pook wrote several concert, music theatre and opera pieces as well as touring with "The Jocelyn Pook Ensemble". In 2002 she was commissioned by

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to write a piece for

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, "Mobile", in collaboration with

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. In 2003 she won a British Composer Award (Currently named the Ivors Composer Awards) for her music-theatre piece Speaking in Tunes. She was commissioned to write a short opera, ''Ingerland'', for ROH2 (the contemporary producing arm of London's

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) which was performed in the

's Linbury Studio Theatre in June 2010. In December 2012 her symphonic song cycle "Hearing Voices", exploring experiences of mental illness, featuring

with

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was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Pook won a second British Composer Award in 2012 for her soundtrack to Akram Khan's dance production DESH. In June 2014 she composed music for

's Glastonbury Festival debut on the

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, performing Akram Khan's First World War-themed ''

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'', broadcast on BBC2. Her most recent ballet for English National Ballet, ''M-Dao'' choreographed by Yabin Wang, premiered in 2016 at

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. She won an

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in 2008 for the National Theatre's production of ''St Joan'' (Dir: Marianne Elliot). Other theatre work includes the 2014 play ''King Charles III'' by Mike Bartlett which premiered at

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, transferred to West End's

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and then to Broadway, New York. Pook wrote the score for National Theatre of Scotland's award-winning ''Adam'' which premiered at

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in 2017 and featured a 120-strong, international digitally connected trans choir. In 2019, Pook was commissioned by

to write a new piece for Prom 49: The Lost Words. "You Need To Listen To Us" sets words from speeches by environmental activist

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to music. She also composed the soundtrack for The Kingmaker, a documentary about the controversial political career of

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, the former first lady of the

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, directed by

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Politics

In November 2019, along with other public figures, Pook signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader

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describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.

Awards and honours

* Music and Sound Award (Best Original Composition, 2019) for the Wife * Bafta (Original Music, 2018) for King Charles III * 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

Discography

Studio albums

* 1997 – ''Deluge'' * 1999 – ''Flood'' * 2001 – ''Untold Things''

Singles

* 1997 – "Blow The Wind" – Virgin Records * 2003 – "Sacrum" (12-inch) – Additive

Albums with ensembles

* 1997 – ''Meeting Electra'' – Electra Strings &

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(with Sonia Slany) – Village Life 97121 VL

Live theatre and dance

* 2018 – ''Memorial'' – For Chris Drummond, the director of 'Memorial' * 2017 - ''Adam''- For National Theatre of Scotland * 2016 - ''Macbeth'' - For Shakespeare's Globe Theatre * 2014 - ''King Charles III''- For Almeida Theatre * 2014 - ''

''- For the dancework of the

(choreographed by Akram Khan) * 2013 - ''Itmoi'' - For the dancework of the group Akram Khan * 2013 - ''Bench'' - For MODERNE MEISJES * 2011 – ''Desh'' – For the dancework of the group Akram Khan * 2006 - ''King John'' - For the Royal Shakespeare Company

Soundtracks (film and TV)

* 1994-6 – ''Blight'' – 14-minute short film by John Smith * 1999 – ''

'' – directed by

* 2000 – ''My Khmer Heart'' (

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) * 2000 – '' The Sight'' – directed by Paul Anderson * 2000 –

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advert, "Ode to Why Campaign" * 2000 – ''Comment j'ai tué mon père'' (''

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'') * 2001 – ''

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'' – 10 episode

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