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CDs produced by Morgan Pochin for Decca/Universal have reached over 1 million sales. Their latest album is with Decca's new treble, Jack Topping and is due for release on November 26th. His repertoire varies widely from renaissance polyphony to arena pop concerts—with artists as varied as Andrea Bocelli, Jamie Cullum, Rick Astley and the BBC Singers, for whom he is a regular guest conductor.
Morgan Pochin’s credits include five best selling albums for Decca by Alfie Boe, Katherine Jenkins and Joe McElderry, with combined sales of over a million albums.
They are attached to two more films currently in pre-production.
Their production and writing credits include Alfie Boe's Alfie, Joe McElderry's Classic, Alfie Boe's Bring Him Home and Joe McElderry's Classic Christmas. The Great Enormo, a Kerfuffle in B flat was premiered at the festival last May with future performances programmed in October with the CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall and at the South Bank in February 2014 as part of the Imagine Festival.
James is also a conductor, working with artists as diverse as Glyndebourne, ENO, Andrea Bocelli, the RPO, Il Divo, Nicola Benedetti, Michael Bolton, the BBC Singers and Rick Astley; his work is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio and he has conducted numerous CD recordings - most recently Diva for Danielle de Niese with the LPO.
Juliette is also a mezzo soprano, nicknamed the Domestic Diva by the Daily Mail, who's career has included such diverse performances as Sea Pictures with Iain Burnside and Gerontius with the CBSO, to duetting with Meatloaf on Popstar to Opera Star, singing live on the televised Last Night of the Proms from Salford and having a chocolate named after her by Hotel Chocolat.
He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then joined ENO from 1994-8. Opera conducting include Gaddafi(ENO), Tangier Tattoo, The Bartered Brideand Zoe(Glyndebourne), Cav and Pag(Gubbay), and Don Giovanni(ETO). Other credits include Katherine Jenkins Premiere, Songs Without Words, Now is the hour - Jane Horrocks/Gracie Fields, Classic Rock (Decca), Swimming over London - King's Singers (Signum), roduced Juliette PochinVenezia Sony Classical and numerous compilations.
He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then joined ENO from 1994-8. Concerts and recordings include the RPO, Philharmonia, LPO, CLS, and LCO at home, and the City of Prague Philhamonic, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Chamber Orchestra and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra abroad. Feature films include First Night (with James also conducting the soundtrack recording) and Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet.
They were commissioned by the Brighton Festival to compose a new guide to the orchestra for families with poet Michael Rosen. Their piece the Great Enormo—a guide to the orchestra for children written with Michael Rosen, was premiered at the Brighton Festival in 2013.
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'… a musical version of a time machine and the orchestra donned pirate hats, swimming goggles, stetsons and sunglasses as the music leapt from the wild west to intergalactic space.' Coventry Telegraph (Sarah Probert on 'The Great Enormo')
James Morgan and Juliette Pochin formed the partnership Morgan Pochin while they were undergraduates at Cambridge, and have gone on to work in a huge variety of fields, from EMMY award winning TV series to UK album chart successes, and, most recently, feature films.
They began working in television with Armstrong and Miller (C4) and then followed the Emmy/BAFTA winning The Kumars at no.42, According to Becs (BBC1), Sermon from St.Albion's (Harry Enfield/Ian Hislop), War Months (Discovery), The Thing about Vince (Timothy Spall - ITV) and Horizon (BBC1).
Opera conducting include Gaddafi (ENO), Tangier Tattoo, The Bartered Bride and Zoe (Glyndebourne), Cav and Pag (Gubbay), and Don Giovanni (ETO). As well as Venezia (Sony), Juliette also features on The Sky Shall be our Roof (Gramophone Editor's Choice), Classical Greats (Sony BMG), Classic Voices (Sony BMG), the No.1 Classical Album 2009 (UCJ) and Classical Voices 2010 (Decca).
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Concerts and recordings include the RPO, Philharmonia, LPO, CLS, and LCO at home, and the City of Prague Philhamonic, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Chamber Orchestra and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra abroad. Their piece the Great Enormo—a guide to the orchestra for children written with Michael Rosen, was premiered at the Brighton Festival in 2013.
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Feature films include First Night (with James also conducting the soundtrack recording) and Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet.His repertoire varies widely from renaissance polyphony to arena pop concerts—with artists as varied as Andrea Bocelli, Jamie Cullum, Rick Astley and the BBC Singers, for whom he is a regular guest conductor.
Morgan Pochin’s credits include five best selling albums for Decca by Alfie Boe, Katherine Jenkins and Joe McElderry, with combined sales of over a million albums.
Other credits include Julian Lloyd Webber, Elton John, the EMMY winning Kumars at No 42, and Juliette Pochin’s Venezia for Sony. They also wrote the music for a recent Save The Children Christmas TV campaign.
Feature films include First Night (Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman), with the soundtrack album on Sony and music production on the film Quartet which marked Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut and starred Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly.
James Morgan
Guest Conductor
Biography
James combines careers as conductor, record producer, and as one half of the composing partnership Morgan Pochin. All these were top 10 chart successes. Other commissions include Kubla Khan for the Philharmonia Orchestra, brass band and chorus (over 300) performers at the Brighton Festival.
As composers/arrangers, credits include scores for BBC, ITV and C4, Tangier Tattoo for Glyndebourne ('sensuously crafted orchestral effects' - The Times), Gaddafi for ENO and tracks by Peter Gabriel, Fatboy Slim, Michael Bolton and Katie Melua.