About
Jessica Wells is a versatile composer, orchestrator, and arranger for concerts, films, theatre, and album recordings.
Her business, Jigsaw Music, provides music preparation services for clients all over the world. She also works as a recording producer and conductor. She was the Musical Director of the APRA Screen Music Awards from 2017-2022, and she is the current Vice President of the Music Arrangers Guild of Australia.
Jessica has orchestrated dozens of scores for the screen including “Elvis”, “Blueback”, “Shadow and Bone”, “Brahmastra”, “Ivy and Bean” and “Paper Planes”.
She is in demand as a concert composer, with recent commissions for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Gondwana Choirs, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Australian Youth Orchestra, Acacia Quartet, Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ensemble Offspring.
She co-orchestrated “Of the Earth” by William Barton, for the opening of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, with several hundred performers on stage, conducted by Simone Young and televised nationally.
In February 2024 her orchestral film score for “Australia”: a three-part documentary series about Australian wildlife, was recorded by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica at Trackdown Scoring Stage in Sydney.
Australian Youth Orchestra
