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Vince Pope (born October 5th 1967) is a British born composer of music for television films and advertising. Les Dawson

Career
Pope was born in London to a west indian father and english mother. The youngest of four boys he began playing the piano at an early age and also became proficient in saxophone and drums. At 12 years old he was spotted by BBC producer Ernest Maxin and was chosen to perform several times on the Les Dawson show. As a Jazz virtuoso on the show he performed for, among others, The Three Degrees. After completing a Maths Degree at University College London Vince returned to music. He undertook a European tour with Midge Ure and later completed the lineup of the band Ethereal which signed to EMI publishing and Food Records.

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 a BTAA award for best original composition. His work on the Nintendo Gamecube ad "Lifes a Game" was picked up by Virgin records and released under the title Destination Unknown.

Following work with Martin Phipps on Series 1 of Wallander Pope went on to score the final episode of Wallander, Series 2, Fifth Woman, for Left Bank Pictures starring Kenneth Branagh.

In 2011 Vince was nominated for a Bafta and went on to win the RTS Award for Best Original Score for his work on the second series of C4′s Misfits. That same year, Vince scored his first feature film, My Angel, starring Timothy Spall, Mel Smith and Brenda Blethyn, for director Stephen Cookson.

The first two series of Bedlam (Red Productions), five series of the critically acclaimed Misfits (Clerkenwell Films for C4), and most recently, 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.