About

Born in London, Rupert is an award winning composer and producer of music for TV, film and advertising. His songs and instrumental music are regularly placed on TV shows across the globe including CSI, American Idol, The Vampire Diaries, Friends: The Reunion and Ozark.

He has also had his music placed in many advertisements for brands such as Mercedes, BMW, VW, Ford, Nokia, Virgin Atlantic, L’Oreal, Vodafone and Estee Lauder and used in trailers for film and TV including Les Misérables, Early Man, Downton Abbey and A Little Life.

Following a classical upbringing, Rupert cut his musical teeth at sound developers Zero-G where he worked on sample libraries such as Jungle Warfare and composed content for the ground-breaking DJ game “Mixman” using the sounds of Heaven 17 and KKlass to create interactive tracks.

Rupert then joined Extreme Music, initially as producer for Thomas Dolby’s Beatnik platform and then as mastering engineer for their growing catalogue. During his time at Extreme he worked on music ranging from Hans Zimmer and John Powell through to Quincy Jones and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and also found time to work on his own compositions.

In 2007 Rupert co-founded Fuze Music, composing bespoke music for commercials and other media and in 2009 Headlock Music was formed as a specialist dance music library.

Rupert Pope portrait in black and white

Now working from his studio in Dorset, Rupert continues to compose original songs for TV and film leading to recent syncs in Netflix shows such as Tiny Pretty Things, Cobra Kai, Wellmania, 13 Reasons Why, Hard Cell and Dead To Me.

He has been a finalist at the Music and Sound Awards 4 times and has won 3 Production Music Awards, most recently in 2022 & 2023.

Awards & Nominations

2023 Production Music Awards

Won Best use of Production Music in Television Drama

2022 Production Music Awards

Won for best use of Music in a Sports Promo

2021 Production Music Awards

Best use of Music in Television Factual

Nominated for Friends: The Reunion

2021 Music & Sound Awards

Best use of Production Music in a TV programme

Nominated for Friends: The Reunion

2019 Music & Sound Awards

Best use of Music in a TV Trailer

Nominated for Les Misérables

2019 Production Music Awards

Best Use of Production Music in a TV Trailer

Nominated for Les Misérables

2018 Music And Sound Awards

Best Use Of Production Music in Online Advertising

Nominated for Ivory Towers written by Rupert Pope

2018 Music And Sound Awards

Best Use Of Production Music in Broadcast Advertising

Nominated for Chasing Stars written by Rupert Pope & Giles Palmer

2018 Production Music Awards

Best Use of Production Music in TV Advertising

Nominated for Chasing Stars written by Rupert Pope & Giles Palmer

2016 Production Music Awards

Nominated for Ivory Towers written by Rupert Pope

Best Score Track

2016 Production Music Awards

Nominated for Where We Started written by Rupert Pope & Daniel Knight

2014 Production Music Awards

Won for Broken Bones written by Rupert Pope & Daniel Knight

Best Ambient Minimalist Song