Segun Akinola was the composer for Doctor Who under Chris Chibnall, beginning in 2018 with series 11. He took over from Murray Gold, who had scored Doctor Who for 12 years. Akinola is the second composer for the revival series, after Gold.
Along with composing incidental music, Akinola arranged a new version of the "Doctor Who theme", based on the original 1963 arrangement. It premiered with The Woman Who Fell to Earth.
Biography
Akinola was interested in both music and storytelling from a young age. He began playing piano and drums at the age of five.
He eventually decided that composing for the screen would allow him the opportunity to pursue both interests, to tell a story with music.
Akinola graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a BA in Composition, and then from the National Film and Television School, with an MA in Composing for Film and Television. In 2017, he was part of BAFTA's Breakthrough Brit programme.[1][2]
Before working on Doctor Who, Akinola had scored BBC Two's Black and British: A Forgotten History, and Shola Amoo's A Moving Image, a feature film about gentrification.
He also scored Dear Mr Shakespeare, a short on racial tensions in Shakespeare's Othello, also directed by Shola Amoo. Most recently, Akinola wrote the score to BBC documentary series The Human Body, Expedition Volcano and Wonders of the Moon.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Segun Akinola | Composer. BAFTA. Retrieved on 8 October 2018.
- ↑ Martin, Dan (27 June 2018). Who is Segun Akinola? The composer reinventing the Doctor Who theme. The Guardian. Retrieved on 8 October 2018.
