CHAMBERS, Jocelyn

Jocelyn C. Chambers is an American composer and pianist from Austin, Texas, currently based in Los Angeles. She began studying composition as a teenager and twice won the Texas Young Composers Competition, first with My Heart and later with Paradise (So This Is Love, My Dear). She entered the composition programme at the University of Texas at Austin at the age of seventeen and later completed graduate training in film scoring at UCLA. Comcast Corporation
Her work spans film, television, advertising and concert music. She composed music for the feature documentary Mama Gloria and has also written for short documentary projects, advertising campaigns and commissioned concert works. Her music has been programmed by ensembles including the London Guild of Horn Players and the Splinter Tongue Clarinet Quartet. Orange County Women’s Chorus
Chambers was selected for the 2021–2023 NBCUniversal Composer Diversity Initiative and later joined Butter Music and Sound as a staff composer. In 2024 she was named a Young Guns 22 winner by The One Club for Creativity. Butler School of Music
One of her concert works, Hope Is a Strange Invention, setting a text by Emily Dickinson, was commissioned by the Orange County Women’s Chorus and premiered in 2022.