composer
Jessica Wells
Jessica Wells was born in Florida, USA in 1974 and migrated to Australia at the age of 11. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1996 and graduated with first class honours. This was followed by a Masters Degree under Dr. Bozidar Kos completed in 1998. In 2005 she completed a Master of Arts in Screen Composition at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Jessica’s compositions cross many genres in the classical, commercial and film music worlds. She runs a successful business working as an orchestrator, arranger and copyist, in such diverse areas such as orchestrating for Ben Lee and WASO (rock band and orchestra), Hollywood film scores (John Powell’s “Happy Feet”, “PS I Love You” and “Jumper”), and arranging and copying for local composers in film, television, theatre and concert works.
Her orchestral music has been performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Sinfonia, Queensland Orchestra and Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. Her work Ainulindale was commissioned by Symphony Australia for the TSO in 2001 and was nominated in the APRA Classical Music Awards for “Best Orchestral Work” in 2002. Many of her works have been recorded and broadcast by the ABC, including The Eight Immortals which was the only Australian finalist in the prestigious Alexander Zemlinsky International Prize for orchestral composition in the USA. Other commissions have been written for solo harp (Marshall McGuire), Marimba Duo (KARAK Percussion) and 12 Cellos (Sydney Conservatorium Cello Ensemble).
Some recent short films Jessica has scored have been acclaimed internationally, including the AFTRS short “The Saviour” which was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 2007, “Sexy Thing” which was selected for screening and in the running for the Palme D’or in Cannes 2006, and “Butterfly Man” which won the Silver Cub Award for short documentary at IDFA in Amsterdam 2005.
Concerts with Chronology Arts