Marco Susino is a California-based composer whose work examines the emotional nature of music—how sound shapes, carries, and reveals emotion. Trained in contemporary classical composition and film scoring, his works are thoughtful studies in how music reveals and shapes emotion. Since 2019, he has been a Guest Artist at The Juilliard School and was awarded the Endeavour Leadership Fellowship in Arts.
His compositions often unfold as emotional states—written not as soundtracks but as reflections. In Bodies in eMotion, premiered at the National Gallery of Australia, music, movement, and visual art converged in a portrait of six universal emotions—sadness, happiness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust—performed by a diverse cast of dancers.
Susino’s practice bridges disciplines, spanning collaborations in dance, film, and installation art. His career includes work with electronic dance artists such as The Prodigy, Metronomy, and Gary Numan, alongside performances at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Sydney Opera House. International residencies in Cuba, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India continue to inform his approach—drawing together music and sound as lived experiences.
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At the heart of his work is a singular inquiry: exploring music not just as an expressive art form, but as a medium through which emotions are conveyed, understood, and ultimately, felt.