Jocelyn Pook

Jocelyn Pook (/ˈdʒɒslɪn ˈpʊk/, rhyming with "book") (born 14 February 1960) is an English composer who is known for her scores for many films, including Eyes Wide Shut, The Merchant of Venice and The Wife. In addition to her film work, Pook has released three studio albums. The album Deluge led Stanley Kubrick to notice her work and facilitated her entry into film scoring. Her principal instrument is the viola. Her scores and performances have received multiple awards from organisations like the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied the viola with David Takeno and piano with Carola Grindea. One of Pook`s first performance jobs was playing the violin in the musical composition for the Internationalist Theatre production of Miss Julie. Pook took part in the band ABC's Lexicon Of Love World Tour and appeared in the Julien Temple/ABC movie Mantrap, continuing with a period of recording and performing with artists including Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Peter Gabriel and as a member of The Communards 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 DV8 Physical Theatre, O Vertigo Danse, Wayne MacGregor, Phoenix Dance Company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and more recently Akram Khan Company and English National Ballet.