Joby Talbot recognized by The Evening Standard, Broadcast and Campaign magazines as one of the UK’s “hottest new artists”, Joby Talbot begain writing and performing in the early 90s, joining Neil Hannon in UK pop phenomenon, The Divine Comedy. They produced seven albums for the group, and Ute Lemper’s critical masterpiece, Punishing Kiss and a collaboration with Michael Nyman, awarded the Edinburgh Festival’s Critics Choice, 1997. Talbot has arranged for pop artists such as Travis, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney and producer Nigel Godrich. In 2000, his score to primetime comedy The League of Gentlemen won a Royal Television Society award, and commissions followed from the BBC and from the British Film Institute for a new score for Hitchcock’s classic The Lodger.
As a classical composer, Talbot has worked with the major UK orchestras and his music is performed internationally by artists such as Evelyn Glennie, The Rascher Saxophone Orchestra and The King’s Singers. His own ensemble showcased his work The Dying Swan: Music for 1–7 Players at the London Jazz Festival and John Schaefer from New York’s Radio WNYC voted the same album No.2 in his top 10 of 2003.
In the tradition of British composers, Talbot records orchestral scenes for film and television. His score to the “BT Broadband Burst Pipe” advertisement was nominated by the MPA for best commissioned music in an advertising campaign.
In 2004 Classic FM appointed Talbot as their first Composer-in-Residence.
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