Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook is an English viola player from the early 1980s who appeared in the ABC movie Mantrap as one of many string players for the album The Lexicon Of Love.
As one of the "Leytonstone Contingent," Pook recorded on two occasions with pianist Jeremy Peyton Jones for Rough Trade and later for Century XXI. About a year later, she joined Anne Stephenson and Audrey Riley to accompany Virginia Astley both on stage and record. Session work followed and alternated with her co-founding of the Electra Strings with Australian violinist Sonia Slany and an album on the Village Life label. This neoclassical chamber quartet later transformed into the Brilliant Strings after she and Slany had gone their separate ways.
Pook also has a separate career as a film composer. By the end of the decade, she had made three albums in her own right; the first was Deluge. She went international with her music for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Recently, she also contributed the score to the 2004 film version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Peter Kosminsky's film on David Kelly, The Government Inspector.
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