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Joby Talbot
Born in London in 1971, Joby Talbot studied composition with Simon Bainbridge and Brian Elias.
In 1993, he began collaborating with Neil Hannon, writing seven albums for their UK pop group The Divine Comedy and Ute Lemper's Punishing Kiss.
His work for string orchestra Luminescence was created in 1997 under Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies.
In 2000 he composed the music for the UK TV comedy series The League of Gentlemen for which he won a Royal Television Society Award. He was then commissioned by the British Film Institute to compose the music for two silent films: The Lodger by Alfred Hitchcock and The Dying Swan by Yevgeni Bauer.
In 2002 he embarked on writing choral works with The Wishing Tree, a short madrigal for the Kings' Singers.
2004 was a landmark year for Talbot. His first BBC Proms commission, Sneaker Wave, premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September and he was appointed the first Composer-in-Residence at Classic FM, each month composing and recording a new work for radio broadcast. This residency resulted in the album Once Around the Sun.
In 2005 he wrote a new choral work, Path of Miracles, and original scores for the films The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.
In 2006 he wrote the music for Paul Weiland's last film, a trumpet concerto for Alison Balsom commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and an album of orchestral arrangements of songs by the White Stripes entitled Aluminium.
Talbot's work has widely appealed to Europe's top choreographers. Chroma for the Royal Ballet was Talbot's initial collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor. It received the South Bank Show Award for Dance and an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Subsequently, Paris Opera Ballet commissioned an electronic score from Talbot for Wayne McGregor's newest work, Genus.
In 2008/09 Talbot will concentrate on a major new work for orchestra.
Carolyn Carlson's pieces eau
Key recordings
Aluminium, 2006 XL Recordings - XLCD 197 Signum - SIGCD078 BMG records Black Box Classics
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