Teenage musician Patrick Bennett has composed the theme tune and score for a new police drama on BBC.
The 19-year-old created the incredible music for the second season of Granite Harbour - a drama following the story of Lance Corporal Davis Lindo, played by Romario Simpson. Following his tour with the Royal Military Police, he finds himself training as a Detective Constable in the northeast of Scotland.
He forms a friendship with DCI Lara Bartlett (played by Hannah Donaldson), but the two end up having to solve the murder of an oil tycoon - who dies under mysterious circumstances. And in the second series, viewers will be able to hear music composed by talented teenager Patrick.
Patrick first approached LA Productions and the company agreed he could create some incidental music. They were impressed with his music and he was soon given the chance to compose for all three episodes of the series. Speaking about the amazing opportunity, he said: "I had the opportunity to go down and watch it in London.
"Hearing my music on speakers in a cinema was really cool. It’s really exciting to see the finished product. My family are all buzzing and we can’t wait to see it on TV.” The first episode of the BBC show will be airing on Friday on BBC One at 8pm. The teen, hailing from Cambridgeshire, gained an interest in music at a young age after his dad got him a guitar.
"Then there was a moment when I was watching the film 1917 and there was a scene in a battered, blown up French town with this music and soundscape which made me go ‘wow’," Patrick explained. “After that, I thought I needed to look more into this and became more interested in media composition.”
Patrick, who is a student at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), said creating the music was a long process of six to seven months. Granite Harbour executive producer Colin McKeown discussed how 'unusual' it is to have a teenage composer on a TV show.
He said: “It’s extremely unusual to have a teenage composer. The sort of gift Patrick has is normally a product of someone who has a much greater experience and level of maturity. Patrick is clearly blessed with a gift and a natural understanding of how to score his music, not to patronise or lead an audience, but to just give them an additional sense of what was present within the scenes.”
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