Biography
Talbot (born 25 August 1971) is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Oscar
2024
Music, Original Concept
Oscar©, a powerful exploration of the life and writings of literary legend, Oscar Wilde. A spectacular new full-length ballet by Tony Award-winning ch...

Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2024
Music
Distraught by her mother's refusal to allow her to meet gardener Jack, Victorian teenager Alice retreats into a book gifted to her by Lewls Carroll.

Sing: Thriller
2024
Original Music Composer
Buster Moon dreams up a star-studded spectacle set to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in this animated short featuring characters from the hit "Sing" fil...

ROH Live 2024/25: Alice im Wunderland
2024
Music
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows hi...

Wonka
2023
Music, Original Music Composer
Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with ...

Like Water for Chocolate
2023
Writer, Original Music Composer
Tita, who lives on a ranch in Mexico, falls in love with a boy, Pedro, who lives nearby; but when they want to get married, Tita's family prevents it,...

Sing 2
2021
Original Music Composer
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti...

Madame
2019
Music
Inside a grand Parisian apartment lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady, lives a monster.

The Winter's Tale
2018
Sound
With atmospheric music by Joby Talbot and powerful designs by Bob Crowley, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet. The story follow...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2017
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
One sunny afternoon, during a garden party, young Alice sees with surprise how the writer Lewis Carroll, a friend of her parents, unusually turns into...

Sing
2016
Original Music Composer
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2014
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows hi...

The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet)
2014
Music
The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through rem...

Closed Circuit
2013
Original Music Composer
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their ...

An Apology to Elephants
2013
Music
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years, they have suffered at the hands of humans. Narrat...

Hunky Dory
2011
Original Music Composer
In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakes...

McGregor: Chroma / Infra / Limen
2011
Music
The diversity of Wayne McGregor's astonishing talent is demonstrated through Chroma, Infra and Limen, each created for The Royal Ballet, for whom he i...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)
2011
Music, Orchestrator
A full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The ballet is based o...

Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
Music
Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the aban...

Burke & Hare
2010
Original Music Composer
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Is Anybody There?
2009
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger, Conductor
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

Franklyn
2008
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
2008
Original Music Composer
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. ...

Arctic Tale
2007
Music
Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cu...

Son of Rambow
2007
Original Music Composer
Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to ma...

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
2006
Music
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! is a pantomime-themed stage show by The League of Gentlemen. The whimsical, pantomime nature of the show was a...

Sixty Six
2006
Original Music Composer
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

Penelope
2006
Original Music Composer
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate...
The Queen, by Rolf
2006
Music
A documentary about the painting of a portrait of Elizabeth II.

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
as Self
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
2005
as Self
Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, recorded on 28 July 2005, was a live concert given by Paul McCartney at Abbey Road Studios, specifically Studio 2, w...

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
Original Music Composer
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way i...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Original Music Composer
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...
The Cicerones
2002
Original Music Composer
A tourist encounters some strange characters in a foreign cathedral.

Let the Good Times Roll
1998
Music
This short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher is about a down-on-his-luck man in London who lives in his car, trying to get by for one m...