Jocelyn Campbell

Composer

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Biography

Born into a musical family in South-West London Jocelyn grew up being encouraged to pursue making and performing music in all forms. Their formative training began at an early age on the double bass but Jocelyn quickly became interested in pop, alternative and electronic music throughout secondary school, first playing in bands and then becoming interested in music production. All of these multifarious disciplines remain in their work today.

Jocelyn began studying composition at Middlesex University under Brian Inglis and Francois Evans. During this time they also became interested in composing music for film as well as music for the concert hall. Both of their subsequent post-graduate degrees have been completed at King’s College London. Firstly studying under Silvina Milstein for an MMus and then under Sir George Benjamin for a PhD in composition, which was awarded in June 2019.

In 2018 Jocelyn collaborated with the director Bella Riza, the conductor Toby Thatcher, the recording artist Jimi Maffei and Ensemble Eroica to produce an interdisciplinary work of music-on-film entitled ePod nano. The project was funded by The Arts Council England and premiered at The Leyden Gallery in London. The project is currently being hosted online by Zeitgeist.

As a composer for the concert hall Jocelyn has worked with such ensembles and orchestras as: The Royal Northern Sinfonia, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The Lontano Ensemble, Ensemble x.y, Ensemble Eroica and Newe Vialles among others. Their works have been performed at venues such as: The Sage Gateshead, St. Jude’s-on-the-Hill, Shoreditch Church, St. James Piccadilly and St. Mary’s-at-Hill.

As a composer of music for film Jocelyn has recently worked with Julien Temple on the original scores for his feature-length documentaries Ibiza: The Silent Movie and Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan. Jocelyn has also scored short films directed by Bertie Gilbert and Theo Nunn.

Jocelyn also writes and performs solo music under the pseudonym phonewifey. Since 2018 they have released multiple projects garnering attention from publications such as Dazed and Dummy Mag as well as being a regular fixture on Spotify’s editorial playlists. To keep up-to-date with all thing’s phonewifey they have a monthly radio show on Soho Radio called NEW DANCE CRAZE.

2022 saw multiple new releases for Jocelyn: In June their piece CLUBLAND: X-TREME EUPHORIA was released on NMC Records and as phonewifey their full-length album Forever 2021 released in March.

In 2024 Jocelyn has recently received the world premiere for a large-scale commission entitled
f o r e v e r 1 9 9 0 written for The Riot Ensemble and performed at London’s Wigmore Hall. The recording of this premiere is currently available to listen to in full on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show via the BBC Sounds Web-player. Also this year, their String Trio 3AM: lights and places flicker endlessly... was premiered at London’s Village Underground by members of The Manchester Collective.

You can download Jocelyn’s PhD Thesis HERE

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