Jo is a professional composer for Film & TV.


She has scored award nominated films which have featured at Cannes, LFF, Encounters, Raindance, Sundance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, SICAF Animation Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, SXSW, Copenhagen Docs, Tribeca amongst many others.
Her work has been featured on Channel 4, Vice and BBC Four.

Jo was recently featured as one of the ‘Top 5 Female Film Composers That should be on your Radar’ from Film4 and Medium.

Her most recent work includes a collaboration with BIFA nominated director Jessi Gutch on two documentaries; Audible and Aesthetica ‘Blind As A Beat’ and from Doc Society hybrid documentary; ‘Until The Tide Creeps In’. Plus a fiction film called ‘Seven Bananas’ from director/actress Daisy Moore.


Fiction film Good Thanks, You? Directed by award-winning DOP Molly-Manning Walker, produced by Michael Fassbender’s production company DMC Film and Try Hard Film. Featuring BAFTA EE Rising Starwinner Michael Ward and BAFTA nominee Jasmine Jobson.


It had its premiere with Semaine De La Critique - The Critics Week in partnership with Cannes Film Festival and featured at 2020 Palmsprings Shortsfest, London Film Festival, Encounters and Raindance, where it was nominated for Best British Short. Fiction film The Forgotten C was premiered online and distributed with The Uncertain Kingdom platform.

 
 
 
 
 

She has continued to work on a large variety of projects ranging from; Short Films to Feature film, Feline; which won the 2018 Panalux Cinematography Award and debuted at Cambridge Film Festival.

The award winning Virtual Reality documentary, Notes To My Father premiered at SXSW and was also shown at Sundance Film Festival and Locarno in partnership with Oculus and Facebook.

Born in Edinburgh, she pursued music from a young age, honing her performance in piano and violin. Stylistically, she writes contemporary classical combined with electronic instrumentation.


Jo has also been interested in unusual textures and sounds within her work to bring something wholly unique to any given project.
She studied an Undergraduate degree in world and classical composition at Edinburgh Napier University where she found her love of composing for all visual mediums.


She went on to further her knowledge in composing for film and studied for a Masters at the prestigious National Film & Television School in London and has since been involved as a BAFTA crew and BFI member. Jo has also received a nomination for Best Composer at Underwire Film Festival.

Represented by Lesley Jackson of UK Film Music.