Mark Orton
Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio drama. He is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on all kinds of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. He is the co-founder of Tin Hat Trio (later Tin Hat), a San Francisco Bay Area based composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums, including guest performances by Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, and Mike Patton. He has written original scores for dozens of films – features, documentaries, and fine art – and has composed music for modern dance, theater, radio, video/art installation, podcasts, the circus, and the concert hall.
Orton’s film scores are featured in director Alexander Payne’s acclaimed “The Holdovers” and “Nebraska,” and the Netflix Series “Working: What We Do All Day,” produced by Barack Obama. Other soundtracks are “Somewhere in Queens,” “12 Mighty Orphans,” “My Old Lady,” “The Good Girl,” “Everything Is Illuminated,” “Sweet Land,” “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” “Mine,” “Comrades in Dreams,” “Buck,” “The Revisionaries,” and “360,” and many more. Collaborations with dance companies include ODC Dance, Bandaloop, Pilobolus, Spectrum, Lawrence Goldhuber, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, and Do Jump.
Film
Dressing A Running Man: Mark Orton And The Art of Film Composing
Mark Orton’s string arrangement for Madeleine Peyroux song in the film “The Shape of Water”
Hollywood Reporter: How Nebraska’s Composer Wrote Americana Music Without ‘Banjo Plucking’
Commercials
Making of the commercial – Music by Mark Orton
Square Space commercial with Keanu Reeves – Music by Mark Orton
Dance