Naomi Pinnock was born in West Yorkshire, Great Britain, in 1979. She studied in London with Harrison Birtwistle and Brian Elias, and in Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm. Her music has been performed internationally by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg, Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Adapter, London Sinfonietta, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and Schola Heidelberg, among others. Performances have taken place at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Warsaw Autumn, ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Tectonics Festival Glasgow, Klangspuren Schwaz, ACHT BRÜCKEN, Rainy Days Festival Luxembourg, and Ultraschall Berlin, among others.

In 2022, she received the prestigious Composition Award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. In 2020, she won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition for I am, I am. Other awards include the 2017 Berlin Working Scholarship for New Music and Sound Art, the Cité des arts Paris Composition Scholarship in 2015/6, the Günther Bialas Composition Prize in 2013, and the Berlin-Rheinsberg Composition Prize in 2010.

In 2020, her first portrait CD, Lines and Spaces, was released on WERGO/Deutsche Musikrat.

She lives and works in Biel/Bienne.