About

Jo is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter. She writes music for all medias and particularly enjoys finding unusual ways to manipulate and create sound, inspired by her background in contemporary classical acoustic and electroacoustic music. Her work draws on her varied classical background and encompasses traditional scoring alongside avant garde experimentation. Her immersive composition method regularly includes unusual approaches to sound and instrumentation alongside extensive research. She regularly self-performs to create unique and organic sounds. She collaborates closely with the directors she works with and has a particular passion for working with directors from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds and on novel, interesting, previously untold stories. She’s a full member of BAFTA.

Jo has worked in features, shorts, web series and podcasts in many genres. The features that she has scored are available to stream via Amazon Prime. Highlights of her work to date include Reunification, a feature documentary which won awards at festivals worldwide, one woman feminist thriller The Bellwether, distributed by Giant Pictures and Cardinal XD, arthouse feature 5 South, and 51 States, a short dystopian scifi film for sarangi, electronics and strings. Her music has appeared on the BBC and her work has been mixed in major UK studios such as Warner Brother’s De Lane Lea. She works with major UK music library companies such as West One and BAM and her music has been used across the BBC. She is affiliated with COOL Music and We Are Golden. In February 2023 she won Best Original Score at White Deer Film Festival for silent short film Ghosted.

She’s scored two games, both available via Steam.

Jo’s work in theatre has included plays with tours around the UK, and runs at both the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes. Jo has worked in both pre-recorded and live theatre scores.

Jo’s singer-songwriter work has included releasing several Christmas charity singles and multiple EPs. She’s gigged around the midlands, and her music has been played on BBC WM.

Jo has a masters degree in composition from the University of Birmingham, having specialised in combining acoustic and electronic sound worlds. During her undergraduate she specialised in romantic violin performance practice and acoustic composition. She has studied with Jonty Harrison and Michael Zev Gordon. Her debut contemporary-classical album will be available later this year.

Jo also works as an orchestrator and score engraver. She regularly works with clients around the world, and provides everything from ghost-written piano teaching resources to full scores for orchestral recording sessions.

From June 2019 to June 2022 Jo was part of BAFTA Crew X BFI Network. She’s a member of PRS and WFTV.

When not writing music, Jo is normally to be found halfway up a mountain or drinking tea.

Credits

Feature Film

Untitled LGBTQ+ Romance (2023)

Suffer (2023)

False Front (feature, 2022)

The Haunting Of The Lady Jane (feature, 2022)

5 South (feature, 2020)

The Bellwether (feature, 2018)

Reunification (documentary film, winner of Special Mention of the Jury Prize at San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2015)

Awards 

Short Film and TV

Into The Thicket (drama 2023)

Realness With A Twist (drama 2023)

(Untitled TV Pilot) (pilot, 2023)

Ghosted (drama, 2022) (winner of Best Soundtrack award White Deer Film Festival 2023)

Jack Investigates! (comedy webseries, 2022)

Like Waves (drama, 2022)

Darkest Corner (horror comedy, 2022)

Post Covid 19 (drama, 2021)

The Box (drama, 2021)

Lover’s Kiss (comedy, 2021)

Crofton (animation, 2021)

The Skin She Sheds (dance film, 2021)

Breathe (drama, 2021)

Passion (drama, 2020)

Sacrament (horror, 2020)

One Moment (docudrama, 2020)

The Other Place (animation, 2020)

Pestis (horror animation, 2020)

Beyond Sight (drama, 2019)

Jonah (docudrama, 2019)

Sissy (drama, 2019)

51 States (sci-fi, 2019)

The Imperfect Machine (documentary, 2019)

Tracing (dance drama, 2018)

Night Of The Screamer (horro,  2018)

Subject 256 (sci-fi, 2018)

Ground Rush (documentary, 2018)

Billion To One (web series, 2017-18, scored as part of CollabFeature)

Death Is Just A Feeling (horror, 2017)

Cups (horror, 2017)

Classified Freaks (web series, 2017)

Disavowed (horror 2016, winner of Audience Choice and Out Of The Box awards at Rack Festival)

Still Chaos (experimental, 2016)

Bespoke (drama, 2016)

The Dark Jewel Ep. 1 (radio play, 2013)

 Theatre

The Magnetic Diaries (mini-UK tour, run at the Edinbugh Fringe Festival 2016)

Honey (mini-UK tour 2016, full tour 2018)

Hide & Seek (run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013)

House of Bernarda Alba (run at George Cadbury Hall Birmingham, 2013)

Songwriting

By The Lovely Shores (EP, 2018)

Ocean (Single, 2016)

Here Is Love (Single, 2015)

Journey On Home (EP. 2015)

Silent Night (single, 2014)

Advert

Capsule (2018)
Arabesque (2020)

Podcasts

Church Plant  (available at www.churchplantpodcast.com)
Wheel Women (https://www.facebook.com/wheelwomenpod/)