Joby Talbot
Born: 25th August 1971, London, England
Nationality: English
Joby Talbot 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.
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 (1999) and The Dying Swan (2002) for the British Film Institute; film scores The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Son of Rambow (2007) and Penelope (2008).
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Further Reading: Talbot, J
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Joby Talbot on Sunstone
17th Aug 2026
The British composer talks to Ben about his new choral work based on Mexican poet Octavio Paz's Surrealist epic Piedra de Sol, written for Conspirare and the BBC Singers, and released on Divine Art last week.
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Miloš Karadaglić on The Moon and the Forest
5th May 2021
The Montenegrin guitarist talks to Katherine about recording two new concertos written especially for him: Joby Talbot's Ink Dark Moon and Howard Shore's The Forest.
All Genres: Talbot, J
Orchestral
Ballet
All Works: Talbot, J
- Algal Bloom (1)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (9)
- Camille (1)
- Chroma (2)
- Confluence (1)
- Dew Point (1)
- Falling (1)
- Fool's Paradise (1)
- Hadal Zone (1)
- Ink Dark Moon (1)
- June: Transit Of Venus (1)
- Mistress Mine (1)
- Motion Detector (1)
- Standing Wave (1)
- Storm Surge (1)
- Sunstone (1)
- The Dolphins (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (1)
- The Path of Miracles (2)
- The Winter's Tale (2)
- The Wishing Tree (2)
- Thou Art Not Fair (1)
- Tide Harmonic (1)
- Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity (1)
Recent Best Sellers: Talbot, J
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New. Wishing Tree
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
CD: $17.75Download from $11.75 -
Jess Gillam - Time
Jess Gillam (saxophone), Jess Gillam Ensemble
Presto CD: $17.25Download from $10.00 -
Talbot: The Path of Miracles & Park: Footsteps
Tenebrae, Fellows of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Nigel Short
CD: $17.50Download from $10.00 -
Coming soon. Joby Talbot: Sunstone (Piedra de Sol)
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
CD: $15.25Download from $10.00
