
Vince Pope has built an outstanding reputation as both film composer and releasing artist, creating music at the intersection of sophisticated neo-classical melodies and flawless electronics and beat production. With credits ranging from Black Mirror to Aisling Bea’s This Way Up, Vince perfectly describes the full range of human emotion in his scores.
In 1999, Vince co-founded Beetroot Music and began writing music for television commercials. Over the past decade, 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, and Great Night Out, a new 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, as score that was released on vinyl and digitally the same year.
Vince went on to score the period drama Rebellion for Sundance TV/Netflix, which depicted the role of women in the Easter uprising, and Sky’s Bounty Hunters, also starring Jack Whitehall. Most recently, Vince worked on the brilliant This Way Up, Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan’s comedy drama; a story of life after a nervous breakdown.
His recent work includes Wolfe (written by Paul Abbott) for SkyMax : The Holiday C5 : Screw C4 : My Name Is Leon - BBC1
Writing compelling scores for TV and Film -
BBC - Channel 4 - Sky - Channel 5 - BBC2 - Guiness - BBH - Mars - John Smiths - Barclays - Samsung - Tango - Saatchi & Saatchi - Sport Relief - AXA - Lego
Bafta Nomination for best original soundtrack : Drama
RTS Winner for best original Titles Music
RTS Winner best original soundtrack : Drama
D&AD award for best original music commercial