BIOGRAPHY

Marco Susino’s music pulls you in, drawing you into an emotional, slow-burning focus. A composer who defies classification and conventional genre borders, he works across contemporary classical writing, experimental electronic, and experimental pop, drawing on cinematic minimalism and sound design.

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His scores move between screen, dance, and installation, 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 language 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 as recipient of the prestigious Endeavour Fellowship. His background spans composition and guitar performance, with further 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 in music and emotion.

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His commissions include new works for the concert hall, independent film, contemporary dance, and gallery-based installation that treat music as narrative and felt experience. His music 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 and performers 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, shaping expressive virtual instruments used by composers 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. 

 

Requiem

Susino is also composing a new modern Requiem, a large-scale commission for release in 2027.