Joby Talbot

Joby Talbot

1971-08-25 Wimbledon, London, UK 35 Credits

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.

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Oscar

Oscar

2024

Music, Original Concept

10.0

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

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

Sing: Thriller

2024

Original Music Composer

7.2

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

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

Wonka

2023

Music, Original Music Composer

7.1

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

Like Water for Chocolate

2023

Writer, Original Music Composer

5.2
Writing

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

Sing 2

2021

Original Music Composer

7.8

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

Madame

2019

Music

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

The Winter's Tale

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

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

2017

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

10.0

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

Sing

2016

Original Music Composer

7.1

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

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)

The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet)

2014

Music

8.0

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

Closed Circuit

2013

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

An Apology to Elephants

2013

Music

7.8

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

Hunky Dory

2011

Original Music Composer

6.2

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

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)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)

2011

Music, Orchestrator

7.7

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

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

Burke & Hare

2010

Original Music Composer

6.1

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

2009

Original Music Composer, Music Arranger, Conductor

6.2

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

Franklyn

Franklyn

2008

Original Music Composer, Conductor

6.0

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

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

Original Music Composer

6.5

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

Arctic Tale

2007

Music

6.7

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

Son of Rambow

2007

Original Music Composer

6.7

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!

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!

2006

Music

8.2

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

Sixty Six

2006

Original Music Composer

6.6

A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

Penelope

Penelope

2006

Original Music Composer

6.7

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'

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

Acting

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

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road

2005

as Self

7.5
Acting

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

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005

Original Music Composer

6.3

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005

Original Music Composer

6.7

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

5.2

A tourist encounters some strange characters in a foreign cathedral.

Let the Good Times Roll

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...