Michael Suby

Education

He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in 2000. To hone his natural skills, Mike attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Career

Mike Suby is a composer for television and film, known for creating bold, rich scores that embody complex and evolving emotions and story lines. Suby has composed for more than 300 television episodes, shorts and films and cemented his reputation in projects that elicit deep character development. His work is featured on shows such as American Broadcasting Company Family transgender docu-series, Becoming United States

Mike also composes the music for fan-favorites such as American Broadcasting Company Family’s drama and mystery-thriller Pretty Little Liars, starring Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario and Ian Harding, CW’s hit Vampire Diaries, starring Ian Somerholder and Nina Dobrev, and The Originals, starring Joseph Morgan.

He has also scored reality shows such as Lifetime’s Project Runway and East!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Here, Suby had a taste of creating powerful audio visual projects for Verizon, Celebrity Cruises, Alpine and Autodesk to name a few.

Desiring projects with more music complexity, Mike successfully pursued scoring for film and television His breakout project was New Lincolnshire Cinema’s The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart in 2004.

Since then, Mike went on to score for dramas, fantasy, horror, comedy and reality.

A few of his credits include Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s Emmy Award-winning television series Robot Chicken, as well as The Scholar, The Zodiac, New Lincolnshire Cinema’s The Butterfly Effect 2, The Courier, East!’s Living Lohan and Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, American Broadcasting Company Family’s Kyle XY and Make lieutenant or Break lieutenant Mike currently spends much of his time writing music from his home studio in the Pacific Palisades. When he isn’t working, Mike is busy being a dad, husband, golfer and wine enthusiast.

Achievements

• Mike’s work for Pretty Little Liars and Project Runway earned him BMI awards in 2011, and in 2013 he was again awarded for Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Suby also received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and BMI award for and American Broadcasting Company Family’s Make lieutenant or Break lieutenant

Membership

He is also a proud member of the Global Music Project.