Marco Valerio Antonini is an Italian composer based in Los Angeles, writing music for film, television, and video games. Classically trained, he is also an orchestrator and studio conductor. His work spans a wide range of projects and media, across the gamut of genres and musical styles.
As an additional composer on the score to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Marco contributed to the Grammy- and Ivor Novello-winning soundtrack, also recognized with BAFTA and D.I.C.E. Award nominations and the Game Audio Network Guild Awards for Music of the Year and Best Soundtrack Album.
His composing credits also include MultiVersus (WB Games), Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare-Broadsword/EA), as well as independent films such as the 2020 feature drama COVID-19 Ground Zero, recorded remotely with a socially distanced symphony orchestra in Budapest during the pandemic.
He has been recognized with the Juan Gil International Soundtrack Prize and the 2018 Krakow Film Music Festival Young Talent Award, the latter leading to a live performance of his music before thousands of listeners at the Tauron Arena in Krakow during the festival's video game music gala.
Marco’s love of the orchestra and theme-driven scoring is at the core of his creative process, and his skills have been honed through countless collaborations with many of the world's leading studio orchestras, from the Hollywood Studio Symphony to the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Synchron Orchestra, and orchestras in Nashville, Prague, Rome and Sofia.
His music also explores the intersection of traditional orchestral writing and modern hybrid sound design, combining acoustic textures with electronic soundscapes.
Originally from Rome, he holds a Master's degree in Composition and Orchestration from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, where he also attended the Film Scoring Workshop “Fotogrammi e Pentagrammi” (Frames and Staves), led by Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani (Life is Beautiful).
He also studied Virtual Orchestration and Audio Post-Production, focusing especially on orchestral mockup production for film and television.
In the US, Marco attended the USC Scoring graduate program, studying under the guidance of mentors such as Bruce Broughton (Silverado, Miracle on 34th Street) and Garry Schyman (Bioshock, Dante’s Inferno), and the ASCAP TV & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles. He was awarded for his achievements in both programs.
He is also an alumnus of the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive, where he studied with distinguished maestros such as Conrad Pope and William Ross.
In 2013 he composed the original music for the Cinecittà / Luce documentary PROFEZIA. L’Africa di Pasolini, about the famous Italian poet. This film was invited to the 70° International Venice Film Festival. That successful experience started a continued collaboration with the Istituto Luce Cinecittà documentary production company, with two new documentaries: L’Ultima voce. Guido Notari (directed by Enrico Menduni) and 1945. L’anno che non c’è (directed by Beppe Attene), for the 70th anniversary of the World War II both presented at international film festivals.
From 2016, he has collaborated with composer Jeff Beal on projects including House of Cards (Netflix) and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (directed by Oliver Stone). He has also worked with composer Gordy Haab, writing additional music for titles including the Star Wars Jedi series (Respawn/EA), the Grammy-nominated Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames/Bethesda), Star Wars: Battlefront II (DICE/EA) and Halo Wars 2 (Microsoft).