Joby Talbot (25 August 1971) is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes and an accordingly broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is therefore known to sometimes disparate audiences for quite different works.Prominent compositions include the theme and score for the popular BBC Two comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999-2002); silent film scores The Lodger (1999) and The Dying Swan (2002) for the British Film Institute; film scores The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Son of Rambow (2007) and Penelope (2008); the a cappella choral works The Wishing Tree (2002) and Path of Miracles (2005); orchestral works Sneaker Wave (2004), Tide Harmonic (2008) and Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity (2012)Works for dance include Chroma (2006), Genus (2007), Fool's Paradise (2007), Chamber Symphony (2012) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2011, revived 2012 and 2013), a full-length narrative ballet score commissioned by The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.
Talbot was Classic FM'S inaugural Composer in Residence during 2004, resulting in the album Once Around the Sun. Tracks from this in turn became part of Talbot's score for choreographer Wayne McGregor's 2005 work for The Royal Ballet, Chroma. The remainder of the score was made up of an earlier original work, Hovercraft, and tracks from Talbot's 2005 instrumental covers album of songs by The White Stripes, entitled Aluminium, a project conceived and executed in partnership with XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, and Talbot's long-time collaborator, the conductor and orchestrator Christopher Austin.
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Was keyboardist and arranger with Neil Hannon's pop group The Divine Comedy, 1993 - 2002.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sing
2016
original score by
Alex the Vampire
2015
Closed Circuit
2013
Frankie
2013
TV Series
An Apology to Elephants
2013
Documentary short
Dead Boss
2012
TV Series 1 episode
Hunky Dory
2011
Psychoville
2009-2011
TV Series 14 episodes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2011
TV Movie by arrangement with Chester Music Ltd
Chroma
2011
Short
Burke and Hare
2010
Alice
2010/II
Short
Tracy Beaker Returns
2010
TV Series 12 episodes
10 Minute Tales
2009
TV Series 1 episode
La danse
2009
Documentary
Franklyn
2008
Is Anybody There?
2008
The Making of 'Son of Rambow'
2008
Video documentary short
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
2008
The Palace
2008
TV Series 2 episodes
Arctic Tale
2007
Documentary
Son of Rambow
2007
Sixty Six
2006
Penelope
2006
The Gil Mayo Mysteries
2006
TV Series 8 episodes
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Grass
2003
TV Series 8 episodes
The Cicerones
2002
Short
Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
TV Short
The League of Gentlemen
1999-2002
TV Series 19 episodes
Wild West
2002
TV Series
Dark Ages
1999
TV Series 5 episodes
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hunky Dory
2011
arranger: songs / music producer
Franklyn
2008
conductor / music arranger
Is Anybody There?
2008
conductor / music arranger
Son of Rambow
2007
orchestrator
Penelope
2006
arranger / conductor
The League of Gentlemen
2002
TV Series music arranger - 4 episodes
Let the Good Times Roll
1999
Short composer: incidental music
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murder
2015
Short performer: "Gonna Kill A Man" / writer: "Gonna Kill A Man"
Some Jerk with a Camera
2011-2012
TV Series documentary writer - 3 episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
producer: "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish", "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish" End Title Version / writer: "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish", "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish" End Title Version
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The League of Gentlemen
2000
TV Series
Victorian Gentleman with sheep
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Being Alice: Adventures in Wonderland
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Great Performances
2006
TV Series
Himself
Between Chaos and Creation
2005
Video documentary short
Himself
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
Video documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2000
RTS Television Award
Royal Television Society, UK
Best Music - Original Title Music
The League of Gentlemen (1999)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2017
Annie
Annie Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production