"music to arrest the ears and stop the heart" (The Times)
"exquisite" (The Guardian)
"A bewitching combination of dissonance and sweet-toned cantabile" (Bachtrack), Josephine's concert music has been commissioned by insitutions such as the BBC and Radio France, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and France Musique. She has written music for acclaimed performers including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Tenebrae, tenor Allan Clayton, cellist Nicolas Alstaedt and guitarist Laura Snowden.
Interested in harmony and dynamic immediacy in her music, she has collaborated with theatre companies such as La Raffinerie, L'Éventuel Hérisson Bleu and FellSwoop Theatre and filmmakers including Julia Jackman and Scott Vickers. She regularly works as an arranger for songwriters and bands, which have included Damon Albarn, Daughter and Lisa Hannigan among others.
She studied at Cambridge and the Royal College of Music. She was a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2015-16 and a London Sinfonietta 'Writing the Future' composer for 2017-19. She was composer in residence at the Opéra Grand Avignon from 2021 to 2023, and that same year won an Ivor Novello Composer Award.