Vince Pope has built an admirable reputation as both film composer and releasing artist, creating music at the intersection of sophisticated neo-classical melodies and flawless electronics and beat production. His latest score is for the fourth season of HBO‘s critically acclaimed crime-drama anthology series True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster.
In 1999, Vince co-founded Beetroot Music and began writing music for television commercials. Over the past two decades, Vince has worked on numerous high profile campaigns for brands including Nike, BMW, Guinness, Honda, John Smiths and Walkers, winning several prestigious industry awards along the way.
In 2011 Vince was nominated for a BAFTA and went on to win the RTS Award for Best Original Score for his score on the second series of Channel 4‘s Misfits. The same year, Vince scored his first feature film, My Angel, starring Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn, for director Stephen Cookson. Since then, Vince has scored the multi award-winning Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, the first two series of Bedlam (Red Productions), five series of the critically acclaimed Misfits (Clerkenwell Films for C4), Bluestone 42, a situation comedy of army life in Afghanistan for the BBC, Great Night Out, a comedy series by Hat Trick for ITV, and Be Right Back, from Netflix/Channel 4‘s dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror.
In 2015, Vince scored Paul Abbott‘s No Offence, the second series of You, Me & Them for Hat Trick; The Gamechangers, a dramatisation of the making of the Grand Theft Auto video games starring Daniel Radcliffe, and the big-screen hit comedy, Bad Education: The Movie, written by and starring Jack Whitehall. In 2016, Vince delivered the score for new E4 comedy The Aliens, and the BBC1 ratings hit Undercover, starring Sophie Okonedo. He continued with series two of No Offence in 2017, as well as scoring the critically acclaimed psychological thriller, Vuelven, (also known as Tigers Are Not Afraid).
Over the past few years Vince has scored the period drama Rebellion for Sundance TV/Netflix, Sky’s Bounty Hunters, starring Jack Whitehall and Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan’s comedy drama This Way Up.
Recently, Vince scored the four-part ITV series Mr Bates vs. The Post Office. He also scored the Sky crime series, Wolfe; the BBC Two feature film, My Name Is Leon, and ITV/Prime Video‘s drama Riches. Most recently, Vince’s scores include ITV’s mini-series You & Me, and Channel 4’s darkly-comic prison drama Screw, which returned for series 2 in August 2023.
As a recording artist, Vince released his debut album, Messages in 2019 on the newly formed imprint Autumn Equinox. Vince has gone on to release 2019’s Awakening; and the EP, Three Days Until Tomorrow in 2020. His latest release is Together Apart: conceived and recorded in lockdown, and collaborating with artists from a wide range of countries, the songs on the album were all composed remotely, via Zoom, emails and the telephone, culminating in a beautiful anthology of ambient music.
En 1999, Vince a co-fondé Beetroot Music et a commencé à écrire la musique pour des publicités télévisées. Durant les dix dernières années, Vince a travaillé sur de nombreuses campagnes de marques réputées telles que Nike, BMW, Guinness, Honda, John Smiths, et Walkers, remportant plusieurs prix prestigieux de l’industrie.
En 2011, Vince a été nominé pour un BAFTA et a ensuite gagné le prix RTS pour la Meilleure Bande Originale pour sa musique dans la deuxième saison de Misfits de C4. La même année, Vince a créé la musique pour son premier long-métrage, My Angel, mettant en vedette Timothy Spall et Brenda Blethyn pour le réalisateur Stephen Cookson. Depuis lors, Vince a composé la musique pour la série Wallander, primée de nombreuses fois et mettant en vedette Kenneth Branagh, les deux premières saisons de Bedlam (Red Productions), cinq saisons de la série acclamée Misfits (Clerkenwell Films for C4), et plus récemment Bluestone 42, une comédie de situation sur la vie militaire en Afghanistan pour la BBC, et Great Night Out, une nouvelle série comédie par Hat Trick pour ITV.
En 2015, Vince a composé la musique pour la dernière série de Paul Abbott, No Offence, la deuxième saison de You, Me & Them pour Hat Trick, The Gamechangers, une dramatisation de la création des jeux vidéos Grand Theft Auto avec Daniel Radcliffe, et le hit comédie du grand écran, Bad Education the Movie, écrit par et mettant en vedette Jack Whitehall.
En 2016, Vince a composé la musique pour la nouvelle comédie E4 The Aliens, et le hit BBC1 Undercover avec Sophie Okonedo. Au cours des 12 derniers mois, Vince a complété la musique pour le film mexicain Siempre Vuelven, le long-métrage allemand Why We Took the Car, et la deuxième saison de la comédie hit de C4 No Offence.
Vince a récemment composé la musique de la saison 2 de Rebellion pour Sundance TV, un drame illustrant le rôle des femmes lors du soulèvement de Pâques, et compose actuellement pour la troisième saison de No Offence et la saison 2 de Bounty Hunters.