MY STORY

Mark is a New Zealand-born composer of choral, film and concert music, based in LA. He was a selected Composer Fellow for the 2024 Choral Arts Initiative PREMIERE|Project Festival, which included the premiere of his "Song of the Sea - Part I" for choir and electric guitar. In 2023, his score for The Reef: Stalked (Hulu) was nominated in both the SCL Awards (USA) and World Soundtrack Awards (Belgium).

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For the concert hall or screen, Mark's music interlaces captivating melodies with mercurial harmonies. Movie Music UK compares his score for The Reef: Stalked  to early Basil Poledouris: "The first thing you notice is how beautiful large parts of it are." He holds a Masters in Screen Composition from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and is a Media Composition professor at California State University, Northridge.