composer Jo Paterson represented by UK Film and Music
Jo Paterson
Jo is a professional composer for Film, TV, dance, and video games, specializing in contemporary classical.
She has scored for award-nominated films and documentaries which have featured at numerous festivals, including Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance Film Festival, London FF, Raindance, Locarno, SXSW, Locarno and Edinburgh FF. Her work has been featured on the BBC, Channel 4, NYT Documentary, MSNC Films/Peacock, and Vice to name just a few.
Most recently, she composed original music for Build A Rocket Boy’s Mindseye; BBC One’s documentary In My Own Words about thriller author Frederick Forsyth; and contributed as a producer, arranger, and co-writer of original songs for the upcoming Apple TV OST My Brother The Minotaur.
Jo is known for creating ambient and electronic soundscapes by blending together orchestral instrumentation with electronica and recordings of found sound to create a truly unique score and way of storytelling. She has always been fascinated with textures and layers within her work and constantly looks for sounds that inspire her in order to create a truly organic soundbed in her own music and for her film work.
She is currently working on a new dance production with Ballet Black and a theatre project with Louise Orwin and songs from Harriet Pittard.
Based in Edinburgh, she remains closely linked with her folk music roots and is working on a new album blending folk themes with contemporary classical, electronic and vocals whilst collaborating with local musicians.
Jo Paterson is a professional composer and musician. Specialising in scoring for Film, Documentary, TV, Dance and Games. She divides her time between London and Edinburgh.
Born in Edinburgh, she pursued music from a young age; honing her performance in piano and violin. She studied an Undergraduate degree in world and classical composition at Edinburgh Napier University where she found her love of composing for all visual medium. Within her music she strives to create a seamless and unique blend between sound and visuals by combining contemporary classical orchestration with electronic instrumentation.
She went on to further her knowledge in composing for film and studied a Masters at the prestigious National Film & Television School in London and has since then been involved as a BAFTA crew and BFI member.
Jo has continued to work on a variety of award nominated projects ranging from; Short Films to Features, Animation, Documentary, Dance, Commercials, Video Games, TV and Virtual Reality documentary.
Documentaries she has worked on have been broadcast with Channel 4, and Vice, To Catch A Cat Killer. Short animation, Hair has been broadcast with BBC Four and BFI Animation.
The VR Documentary, Notes To My Father premiered at Sundance Film Festival in partnership with Oculus and Facebook and was shown at SXSW, Tribeca, Locarno Film Festival and Copenhagen Docs. Various other films she has worked on have debuted at SICAF Animation Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and Underwire Film Festival, where she was also nominated for the Best Composing Category for her work on fiction film ‘Chicken’.
– IMDb Mini Biography By: Jo Paterson