Career
His academic life in his native country (Master"s degree in composition) and very active performing career (as a pianist who played with people like Darius Brubeck, Shirley Bassey, Airto Moreira and Ladysmith Black Mambazo) prepared him for his enrollment into University of Southern California’s Film Scoring program Upon completion he was hired by film composer Christopher Young as an assistant and then joined Machine Head in Venice where he wrote music for countless television commercials for companies like Apple, Budweiser, American Express and Toyota. The Ward has him working with legendary horror director John Carpenter.
Recent films Louisiana Mission, Legacy, Repentance and The Least Among You are also being released in 2010.
In 2014, he also wrote scores for Martin Scorsese-produced gangster drama Revenge of the Green Dragons. Other visual media work includes the American Broadcasting Company television series Daybreak and Jake in Progress, Fox’s Kitchen Confidential, the documentary The Last King, the Aztec Pantheon exhibit at the Getty Museum and music for the games Full Spectrum Warrior and The Matrix: Path of Neo.
Non visual work includes 2 albums under the name ‘The Gravy Street’, 2 albums with Electronic outfit Ape Quartet, a KCRW Anne Litt remix of an Ozomatli track and string arrangements on a Glenn Hughes album. Mark’s deep understanding and appreciation of world music, jazz, electronica and modern classical music has formed a musical style which has been described as rhythmically sophisticated, evocative and driving, while retaining a raw emotional simplicity that draws on the creative use of everyday sound.
