BIOGRAPHY

Marco Susino is an Italian composer whose work explores cinematic minimalism and emotional, experimental soundworks. Drawing on a language of suspended tones, layered textures, and minimal gestures, his music invites listeners to pause and feel, reflect, and inhabit time differently. Acoustic instruments and electronic elements coexist, shaped by his long-standing interest in sound’s ability to carry emotional weight.

 

His practice spans music for film, dance, and visual art, with a focus on how sound moves through the body and across space. Bodies in eMotion, premiered at the National Gallery of Australia, explored six fundamental emotions as experienced through music, movement, and visual narrative.

 

Susino studied in London and Sydney, completing his training at Berklee College of Music in Film Scoring, and holds a Licentiate, a Master’s, and a Doctorate in Music. He was awarded the Endeavour Fellowship to undertake a residency at The Juilliard School in New York, where he continues as a Guest Artist.

 

Having lived across six countries his work reflects a deep attention to place. His music has been performed across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific, in venues from the Sydney Opera House to London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has collaborated with a diverse range of artists—from electronic pioneers such as The Prodigy and Gary Numan, to members of the English Chamber Orchestra, reflecting a practice that moves fluidly between contemporary and classical sound worlds. He is also engaged by Orchestral Tools in Berlin on the creation of expressive new sonic instruments.

 

Current Work

Susino is currently working on The Nature of Loss, a suite for piano, strings, and electronics. It is a meditation on absence—on how we carry what’s no longer there. The music unfolds slowly, shaped by fragile textures, faded harmonies, and the unresolved pull of memory. It is not about endings, but about the emotional traces that linger—soft, persistent, and human.