Time, silence, light, reflection and transcendence: exploring these themes, Jane Antonia Cornish’s six studio albums have been met with wide acclaim, and have been called “a font of wistfulness and melancholic beauty” by WQXR, “beautiful” by BBC Radio 3, “patient, virtuosic, and mesmerizing” by Tom Schnabel, KCRW and "a virtual blessing in a world gone mad” by ICON Magazine.

The first woman in history to win a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for music, Jane Antonia has also scored many films, including “Fireflies in the Garden” starring Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe and Jim Henson’s Five Children & It. She was named one of the UK Film Council's "Breakthrough Brits in Hollywood", was nominated for a Robert Award for her score to Zentropa’s “Island of Lost Souls” and also for “Breakthrough Composer of the Year” award by the International Film Music Critics Association.

Jane Antonia’s work spans the concert hall, film, ballet and the art world. She collaborated with New York City Ballet principal Ask la Cour on the title track from her album Into Silence. The pas de deux was performed as part of the Stars of American Ballet tour and a film of the ballet was released with the album. Her music was also included in a new work by choreographer Joseph Sturdy, Sonatra which was commissioned and performed by The Royal Swedish Ballet.

Sierra, her most recent album, was written for four and six pianos, all performed by Bang on a Can All-Star Vicky Chow, and released by Cantaloupe Music. Described as “Translucent…music inspired by the stillness Cornish feels when she is connected to nature” (BBC Radio 3), an album of “cosmic marvels” (The Guardian), “poetic meditations that quietly dazzle the senses and engage the intellect” (Textura Magazine) and “…an entrancing experience” (The Whole Note Magazine), Sierra has been met with critical acclaim.

The genesis of the album, Last Light, the only piece on Sierra written for one piano, was depicted in Noah Buchanan’s 2020 painting, Symphony — a brilliant celebration of individuality and diversity through the lens of art as a metaphor for the human condition. Jane Antonia has also collaborated with sculptor Phyllis Green on her clay installation with video Sylvia on Mars which was featured in her 25 year retrospective Splendid Entities.

Continuum, her second studio album, was performed by Decoda, the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. Continuum was named WQXR Q2 Music's Album of the Week. The release followed Cornish’s album Duende, described by the American Record Guide as “a program of bold, thoughtful, mesmerizing chamber music.”

Jane Antonia’s orchestral tone poem, “Symphony” was awarded a Special Distinction from ASCAP’s Rudolph Nissim Prize.

Jane Antonia Cornish studied composition at The Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert, where she was awarded the RNCM Composition Prize and was made a Major Scholar. She went on to complete her postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Music, London.