Jenny Gould

Member

Composer/Lyricist:	Composer
Genre:	Media
Website:	www.jennygould.net

Biography

Jenny Gould trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London College of Music and Media, and now works as a vocal coach, composer, arranger, musical director and freelance pianist.

Work as Composer/Musical Director includes productions with Greenwich Theatre, New End Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and the Young Shakespeare Company.  One of her choral pieces, The Church-Floore, was recently accepted by the renowned Elysian Singers. Earlier this year she was MD of a production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, and during the Xmas period she was Assistant MD/keyboards on a new version of Peter Pan for Chichester Festival Theatre.

In addition, Jenny has written a number of other works for a variety of instruments and voices. These include Stamp! for solo piano, and Last Song of a Nightingale, a flute and piano piece published by Hunt Edition for the British Flute Society, also available for solo piano. Her Shropshire Lad settings for tenor and String Quartet were premièred by the Solaris Quartet at the Ludlow Festival.

Current work includes 1940s-stye music for The Principal Theatre Company’s Twelfth Night, a collaboration with award-winning children’s writer Roy Apps, adapting one of his books into a musical for schools, and composing music for a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Young Shakespeare Company. Jenny is also working on a piano album which, along with most of her compositions, will soon be available to buy directly from herwebsite, address below.

Website: www.jennygould.net
Email:  jennykgould@gmail.com

Important Works		Performances
Last Song of a Nightingale for flute and piano Last Song of a Nightingale for piano solo Three Shakespeare Lyrics - O, Mistress Mine; Come Away, Death and When Daisies Pied, for SATB Two Fairy Songs from A Midsummer Night's Dream - You Spotted Snakes and Over Hill, Over Dale The Church-Floore, setting of poem by George Herbert, for S,S,A and piano, also available as solo song Two Songs from A Shropshire Lad for String Quartet and Tenor, settings of poetry by A.E. Housman Not Quite Haydn, for solo piano English Country Dance? for solo piano Stamp! for solo piano Ballet Lourd, for solo piano		Live music for openair production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, performed by The Principal Theatre Company at Forty Hall, Enfield and Coram's Fields, Bloomsbury. Full details and tickets from my website 14/09/2007: Musical Director/Pianist for cabaret at The Music Room, Pizza Express Maidstone, programme to include my original songs Full Circle Children's Theatre Group review show, London venue tbc, programme to include my song 'Now Is My Time' 01/12/2006: The Nightingale and The Rose, chamber opera given premiere by The Helen Roy Musical Theatre and Opera Workshop, at St. Cyprian's Church, London, recording and score available.