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Morgan Pochin

James Morgan and Juliette Pochin formed their partnership Morgan Pochin whilst at Cambridge University, and have gone on to work in a huge variety of fields, from EMMY award winning TV series to UK album chart successes, feature films and compositions for the concert platform and stage.

Record Production

They have worked with a huge variety of artists such as Sir Bryn Terfel, Pete Townshend, Alfie Boe, Robert Plant, Sir Cliff Richard, Collabro, Nick Jonas, Katherine Jenkins, Luke Evans, Lana del Rey, Ronaldo Villazón, Rebecca Ferguson, Gregory Porter and Dame Vera Lynn. They have produced for the labels Decca, BMG, Sony, SYCO, Deutsche Grammophon, Verve and their albums are regularly found in the charts.

See Discography for full list.

Film Credits

  • The Courier (Benedict Cumberbatch dir: Dominic Cooke)
  • Operation Mincemeat (Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald)
  • First Night (Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman), soundtrack album on Sony
  • Quartet (Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, starring Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Tom Courtenay and Billy Connelly)
  • The Policeman - (Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, dir: Michael Grandage)
  • Killing Jesus (National Geographic and Ridley Scott production, Kelsey Grammar as Herod)

TV Credits

  • Walkers Crisps Advert
  • Armstrong and Miller (C4)
  • The Kumars at no. 42 (Emmy / BAFTA award)
  • According to Becs (BBC1)
  • Sermon from St Albion's (Harry Enfield / Ian Hislop)
  • War Months (Discovery)
  • The Thing about Vince (Timothy Spall - ITV), Horizon (BBC1)
  • Save the Children's TV ad campaign

 

Stage / Concert Platform

Their music has been broadcast on BBC R2 and 3, Classic FM and on BBC TV and ITV, including the Classical Brits, and performed by most of the major UK orchestras.

The Salisbury Anthem was commissioned by Salisbury Cathedral to mark the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Cathedral. It involved the whole community in the performance and was premiered and broadcast on BBC Radio. The Brighton Festival commissioned them to compose a new guide to the orchestra with Michael Rosen and The Great Enormo, a Kerfuffle in B flat went on to be performed by the CLS at Brighton Dome, the CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall, the South Bank and was translated into Portuguese for performances there. Other commissions include Kubla Khan for the Philharmonia Orchestra, brass band and chorus, Kyrie premiered on BBC R3 with the BBC Singers, orchestration for Tangier Tattoo for Glyndebourne, Diva (Danielle De Niese), Peter Gabriel, Fatboy Slim, Michael Bolton, and Katie Melua. Their Cantata for Freedom, Invictus, for orchestra and massed choirs premiered at the Brighton Dome as part of the Magna Carta celebrations.

They have recently recorded in Abbey Road the Soundscapes co-written with Pete Townshend for his new opera and are working with historian, Tom Holland on a new operatic show, Cleopatra to be premiered at the Pyramids in 2025.

James (conductor) and Juliette continue to perform together throughout the UK. In 2018 they were presented with a Points of Light Award by Theresa May at Downing Street for services to charity - they put on two gala performances at the Royal Albert Hall Symfunny No.1 & No.2 for Parkinson's UK.