Jocelyn Pook (born 1960)
Jocelyn Pook was born in Birmingham England and studied viola and piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She spent some years recording and performing with musicians such as Peter Gabriel and PJ Harvey, and she wrote scores for plays and ballets.
In recent years Jocelyn Pook has been composing film scores, starting with 4 tracks (about 24 minutes) of some of the creepiest music in Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Here is the music for the “Masked Ball” sequence from that movie performed live. The music is based on Jocelyn Pook’s earlier composition Backwards Priests, which uses a recording of a service from the Romanian Orthodox church played backwards. Jocelyn Pook is the musician playing the viola.