Born in Britain, Jane Antonia Cornish displayed her musical talents from a young age and started piano and violin lessons at the age of 7. She wrote her first symphony at the age of 12 and was a finalist playing violin in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. She studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music in London, and in her initial career has served as orchestrator on a number of films and also scored for television. For her first major film, the Jim Henson production "Five Children and It" with Eddie Izzard and Kenneth Branaugh, Cornish has received the "Anthony Asquith Award for Best New British Composer" at the BAFTAs (the British equivalent of the Oscars).
Cornish now stays in Los Angeles where she recently won the "Breakthrough Brits in Hollywood Award" in November 2005. She recently completed a score for the Danish movie "Island of the Lost Souls" and has been commissioned to write a concert suite based on the music from this epic. Cornish is now working on the score for a thrille called "Solstice". Her own website is at www.janecornish.com.
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