BIOGRAPHY

Marco Susino is an internationally active composer whose music pulls you into a slow-burning, inward focus. Drawing on cinematic minimalism and sound design, he works across collaborative and interactive media, contemporary classical writing, and contemporary electronic practice, with select projects extending into electronic pop under the alias I Must Confess.

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His scores move between screen, dance, and installation, often developed collaboratively for movement, image, and space, balancing intimacy with a slow, architectural sense of tension and a distinctly cinematic edge. In his work, he draws on a wide palette of post-minimal writing and  electronics, ranging from fragile, close-up pieces to expansive, layered soundworlds, marked by precision of feeling and nuance.

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Susino is a Juilliard Fellow and continuing Guest Artist at The Juilliard School, where he first held a residency in 2019 as recipient of the prestigious Endeavour Fellowship. He mentors emerging artists at Juilliard in composition and creative practice. He trained in London and Sydney, before advanced studies in film scoring, electronic technology, and sound design at Berklee College of Music, and holds a Licentiate, a Master’s, and a doctorate focused on musical expression, perception, and emotion.

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His commissions span the concert hall, independent film, contemporary dance, and gallery-based installation, treating music as narrative and lived experience. His work has been heard at venues including the Sydney Opera House and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

 

Susino has collaborated with members of the English Chamber Orchestra, Bangarra Dance Theatre, and The Australian Ballet, as well as artists including The Prodigy and Gary Numan. He also contributes to Orchestral Tools in Berlin and FFOSSO, shaping expressive instruments for modern scoring used by composers, producers, and sound designers worldwide. He continues to work across borders of medium and style, moving fluidly between visual media and multidisciplinary performance.

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Forthcoming Releases

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Inanimate Subjects (2026)

The new album, Inanimate Subjects, gathers a series of works shaped by encounters with grief, impermanence, and memory. 

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Ngalki (forthcoming)

Susino is commissioned to compose a contemporary Indigenous-led Requiem for orchestra, choir, and electronics, developed in collaboration with cultural advisors, with a forthcoming release.