Jessica Curry

Jessica Curry is a BAFTA-winning, Ivor Novello-nominated composer of contemporary classical music and is also co-founder of renowned games company The Chinese Room. Her work has been performed in many diverse and high-profile venues such as The Royal Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House, as well as played extensively on radio stations and in concert halls around the world.

She has written music for games such as Little Orpheus, Dear Esther, So Let Us Melt and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and is currently working on three new game soundtracks. Her score for Everybody’s Gone to Rapture earned Jessica a BAFTA award in 2016.

Jessica was a presenter on Classic FM, presenting High Score, a Saturday night show about video game music, which is the most listened-to show on catch-up in the history of the station. She went on to present a new show for BBC Radio 3, Sound of Gaming, and has hosted concerts for the BBC Concert Orchestra.

In late 2018, she was commissioned by The Royal Shakespeare Company and Magic Leap to work on The Seven Ages of Man, a mind-bending AR experience which was selected for Sundance Film Festival 2019 as part of their New Frontier programme.

Jessica was London Oriana Choir’s composer in residence in 2018 and was selected for PRSF’s New Music Biennial and was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award at Women in Games that same year.