Continuum

Award-winning composer Jane Antonia Cornish has already made her mark in film scoring with the music for the drama Fireflies in the Garden, starring Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, and the orchestration for “Once Upon a Dream” for Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, as well as the title song for Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christopher Waltz. Her new innova album, Continuum, shows her in concert mood, albeit still lush and atmospheric.

Performed by Decoda — the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall — these four world premiere recordings of chamber works explore terrain as disparate as the cyclic nature of the ocean’s tides, our relationship to space and memory, and deep connections to place. The release follows Cornish’s Duende, which the American Record Guide described as “a program of bold, thoughtful, mesmerizing chamber music” — a description that could apply equally well to Continuum.

Cornish grew up in England and now lives in New York City. She was Composer in Residence at the inaugural Chelsea Music Festival and has received a Special Distinction from the ASCAP Foundation’s Rudolf Nissim Prize jury for her orchestral tone poem, Symphony, a Danish Academy Award nomination and a Movie Music UK award for her score to Island of Lost Souls. The International Film Music Critics Association nominated Cornish for Breakthrough Composer of the Year and in 2005 the UK Film Council honored her with a Breakthrough Brit in Hollywood award.