Joby Talbot

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Full Name	Joby Talbot
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Aug 25, 1971(1971-08-25)
Age	53
Birthplace	Wimbledon
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Joby Talbot Biography

Joby Talbot is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on August 25, 1971 in Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom. British composer who is known for his scores for TV shows like The League of Gentlemen and films such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

He has assisted in the arrangement of songs from a variety of artists such as The Beatles’ He has helped to arrange songs by a wide variety of artists, including The Beatles’ Paul McCartney..

Joby Talbot (born 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.

Though classically trained, Talbot’s early career centred on film and television scores and pop arrangements. His work as arranger and keyboardist with Neil Hannon’s band The Divine Comedy continued from 1993 until 2002. He also played saxophone on the song “Time of Legends” for gothic rock band NOSFERATU, appearing on their 1993 single “Savage Kiss” and their 1994 album The Prophecy. In 1999, following some minor television scoring jobs, Talbot was commissioned to write the theme and score for BBC Two’s comedy series The League of Gentlemen, for which he was awarded the Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music and which he would continue to score throughout its three series and film, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005). Talbot was commissioned, also in 1999, by the British Film Institute to provide a new score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film The Lodger, and again in 2002 the BFI had Talbot write a piano trio to accompany Evgenii Bauer’s The Dying Swan (1917).

He was married to his sculptress Claire Burbridge in November 1998.

Joby Talbot Net Worth

Joby Talbot is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joby Talbot 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began his studies at King’s College School at age eight, on a scholarship to music.

He was awarded his Royal Television Society Award for the Best Title Music for his work on The League of Gentlemen, a BBC show. The League of Gentlemen.

Talbot was born in August 1971 in Wimbledon, London. He grew up in Mitcham, south London, and attended King’s College School, Wimbledon, on a music scholarship from the age of eight. Talbot played the piano and oboe, studied composition privately with Brian Elias and after receiving a Bachelor of Music from Royal Holloway University of London, he completed a Master of Music (Composition) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Simon Bainbridge.

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Sneaker Wave (2004) for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales was Talbot’s second Proms commission, and also in that year, he was appointed Classic FM’s inaugural Composer-in-Residence, a project which involved the composition of one short piece for small ensemble per month and resulted in the album Once Around the Sun (2005 Sony BMG). In 2006, Talbot wrote the trumpet concerto Desolation Wilderness for soloist Alison Balsom and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Turku Philharmonic Orchestras. A third work for the Proms was Talbot’s 2011 arrangement of Purcell’s Chacony in G Minor for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The next year, Talbot was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra to write an eighth movement to Holst’s The Planets, as part of their interactive installation Universe of Sound at the Science Museum, London. The work, entitled Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity premiered at The Royal Festival Hall, London, in 2012, as part of the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad.

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Among the pieces composed as part of Talbot’s Classic FM residency are A Yellow Disc Rising from the Sea, Transit of Venus and Cloudpark, all of which went on to form part of Talbot’s score for the Royal Ballet production Chroma (2005), his first collaboration with current Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor C.B.E. McGregor had heard Talbot’s 2004 orchestral work Hovercraft and approached him about creating a larger score around this. The remaining elements of the Chroma score are the tracks ‘Aluminum’, ‘Blue Orchid’ and ‘Hardest Button to Button’ 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. Chroma won the South Bank Show Award for Dance and an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, and continues to be staged by numerous companies internationally, including the Bolshoi Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Boston Ballet, The Australian Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Top Facts about Joby Talbot

1. Joby Talbot is a British composer and arranger.
2. He has composed music for films, TV shows, and ballets.
3. Talbot’s most famous work is the score for “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” film.
4. He has also worked with artists such as The Divine Comedy and The Arctic Monkeys.
5. Talbot was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2018 for his work on the TV series “The Crown”.
6. His ballet “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” has been performed by major companies worldwide.
7. Talbot studied at the Royal College of Music in London.
8. He has won several awards, including a BAFTA for his work on “The League of Gentlemen”.
9. Talbot’s music often combines classical and contemporary elements.
10. He is known for his use of unconventional instruments in his compositions, such as toy pianos and musical saws.