MY STORY

Mark is a New Zealand-born composer of film and concert music, based in LA. In 2023, his score for The Reef: Stalked (Hulu) was nominated in both the SCL Awards (USA) and World Soundtrack Awards (Belgium). Mark was a selected Composer Fellow for the 2024 Choral Arts Initiative PREMIERE | Project Festival, and that same year premiered "Song of the Sea" for choir and electric guitar with LA Choral Lab. He is a regular featured composer at LA's monthly Night Temple string quintet event, having composed and performed 11 works for 6 of their concerts, most recently October 2025.

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For the screen or concert venue, Mark's music interlaces lyrical 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 Degree in Screen Composition from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, and since summer 2025 has been Department Head of Composing for Visual Media at Los Angeles College of Music.