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 hundreds of scores for the screen. In 2022 these included “Elvis”, “Blueback”, “Shadow and Bone”, “Brahmastra”, “Ivy and Bean” and “Pickmans’ Model” from Netflix’s “Cabinet of Curiosities”.
She is in demand as a concert composer, with recent commissions for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Gondwana Choirs, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Australian Youth Orchestra, Acacia Quartet, Kuringai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ensemble Offspring.
In 2022 she arranged Kurt Weill’s Violin Concerto for Signum Saxophone Quartet and Kristian Winther (Musica Viva), Clara Schumann’s Op.16 piano Preludes and Fugues for Flinders String Quartet, and Dvorak’s “Waldesruhe” for the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
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.
