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biography
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composer credits
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Mark Suozzo's music can be heard in feature films, documentaries, television, commercials and recordings. His broad pallette of styles and musical colors have enhanced a number of award-winning films. Best known as the composer on Whit Stillman's films, Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, he has scored documentaries as well, including the award-winners Off The Menu-The Last Day's Of Chasen's, Jan Oxenberg's Thank You and Goodnight, Oscar nominee Sound and Fury , Sundance 2000 favorite Well-Founded Fear and HBO's The Young and The Dead. Mark scored the Sundance 2003 Grand Jury Prize Winning Good Machine/HBO Independent Film “American Splendor” and the 2003, which has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay Category and “Why Can't We Be A Family Again?” by Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel, which has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Documentary Category. Mark scored the Feature Film “The Notorious Bettie Page” starring Gretchen Mol and Lili Taylor, directed by Mary Harron for HBO/Killer Films, which was released on April 14th, 2006. Currently, Mark has started the score for "The Nanny Diaries" starring Scarlett Johanssen and Directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman for a 2007 release.
Television credits include music for the Hallmark miniseries Aftershock; The 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta and The 1998 Goodwill Games; for Sesame Street and Nickelodeon's “Eureka's Castle”.
In the recording field, he scored and conducted the strings on Creed's Grammy winning number one song, "With Arms Wide Open." He has contributed arrangements to recording artists Trickside, Aretha Franklin, Britney Spears, The Back Street Boys, N*Sync and Joe.
Mark moonlights on guitar with his little big band in New York City, where he lives with his wife Karen and their two children.
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