Jocelyn Pook is a composer who writes scores for concert, film, theatre and dance with the same apparent ease. She sculpted her classical musical education on the viola, which in the world of composition places her as an artist of linear and horizontal music events. Listening to her work more carefully, one can grasp extraordinary delicacies to which Pook has paid attention – we perceive the subtle and accurately elaborated melodic lines that are captured and mingled in harmonies with a touch of the renaissance, as well as classical and contemporary pulses. Jocelyn Pook collaborates with a range of appealing musicians: Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Natacha Atlas, Peter Gabriel, and appeared with such bands as The Communards and Massive Attack.
Among Pook’s film scores, was that for Stanley Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut (1999), as well as two years later L’emploi du temps (Time Out) directed by Laurent Cantet, and Anne Fontaine’s Comment j’ai tué mon père (How I Killed My Father). In 2002 she contributed one piece – Dionysus from the album Untold Things – to Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (the original score for the film is by Howard Shore).
