BIOGRAPHY

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

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His scores move between screen, dance, and installation, often developed collaboratively and designed to respond to movement, image, and spatial context, balancing intimacy with a slow, architectural sense of tension and a distinctly cinematic edge. In his solo work, he draws on a wide palette of post-minimal writing and experimental electronics, ranging from fragile, close-up pieces to expansive, layered soundworlds, always with a focus on emotional 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, and continues to teach and mentor emerging artists. His background spans composition, with advanced studies in film scoring, electronic technology, and sound design at Berklee College of Music. He holds a Licentiate, a Master’s, and a doctorate focused on musical emotion and expression.

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

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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 virtual instruments 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.