Editing Joby Talbot (section)

{{Short description|British composer}}
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| birth_place=[[Wimbledon, London]], England
| occupation=[[Composer]]
| background=non_performing_personnel
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'''Joby Talbot''' (born 25 August 1971) is a British [[composer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Joby+Talbot|title=Joby Talbot music, videos, stats, and photos - Last.fm|website=Last.fm|access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-03-19 |title=Joby Talbot |url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=1558 |access-date=2023-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319114452/http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=1558 |archive-date=19 March 2006 }}</ref> He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works.

Prominent compositions include the a cappella choral works ''The Wishing Tree'' (2002) and ''[[Path of Miracles]]'' (2005); orchestral works ''Sneaker Wave'' (2004), ''Tide Harmonic'' (2009), ''Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity'' (2012) and ''Meniscus'' (2012); the theme and score for the popular [[BBC Two]] comedy series ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' (1999–2002); silent film scores ''[[The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog|The Lodger]]'' (1999) and ''[[The Dying Swan]]'' (2002) for the [[British Film Institute]]; film scores ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' (2005), ''[[Son of Rambow]]'' (2007) and ''[[Penelope (2006 film)|Penelope]]'' (2008).<ref name="MSC Works">{{Cite web |date=2007-03-02 |title=Joby Talbot |url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=3&ComposerID_2905=1558&CategoryID_2905=0 |access-date=2023-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070302193317/http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=3&ComposerID_2905=1558&CategoryID_2905=0 |archive-date=2 March 2007 }}</ref>

Works for dance include shorter works ''[[Chroma (ballet)|Chroma]]'' (2006), ''Genus'' (2007), ''[[List of Morphoses productions#Fools.E2.80.99 Paradise|Fool's Paradise]]'' (2007), and ''Chamber Symphony'' (2012); and four full-length narrative ballet scores, commissioned by [[The Royal Ballet]], the [[National Ballet of Canada]] and [[The Australian Ballet]], ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ballet)|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (2011, revived 2012 and 2013), ''[[The Winter's Tale (ballet)|The Winter's Tale]]'' (2014), ''Like Water for Chocolate'' (2022),<ref name="MSC Works"/> and ''[[Oscar (ballet)|Oscar]]'' (2024).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Howard |first=Jane |date=2024-09-14 |title=The Australian Ballet: Oscar review – much to love in this blend of classical and contemporary dance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/sep/14/the-australian-ballet-oscar-review-much-to-love-in-this-blend-of-classical-and-contemporary-dance |access-date=2024-09-16 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Talbot premiered his first opera in January 2015 with [[Dallas Opera]], a one-act work entitled ''[[Everest (opera)|Everest]]''  to a libretto by [[Gene Scheer]], which follows three of the climbers involved in the [[1996 Mount Everest disaster]].<ref>{{cite web |title=La Wally by Alfredo Catalani |url=http://dallasopera.org/season/everest/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029211131/http://dallasopera.org/season/everest/ |archive-date=2014-10-29 }}</ref>