Biography

Marcus Barone is a Motion Picture Executive in Charge of Music and Music Supervisor in Los Angeles, California.

In 1992, he became Director of Music and Supervisor at Motion Picture Corp. of America(Columbia / Tristar) in Los Angeles. He was appointed Executive in Charge of Music at Orion Pictures in 1998.

Today Marcus operates Film Music Group, a Motion Picture Music Supervision, Soundtrack, and Production Company in Los Angeles, working with clients including Lionsgate, Universal, Sony Pictures, Entertainment, MGM Pictures, NBC, ABC, MTV, A&E, Comedy Central Networks, and Lucasfilm / Skywalker Sound. Marcus is based at three state of the art digital recording studios in Los Angeles, Redwood City /Silicon Valley, and in Auburn, CA.

Heads Yosemite Pictures, a script development group which develops holiday, dark comedy, action, urban, and dramatic thriller scripts for pitching.

Marcus is a BMI composer and song writer well as a studio musician. His music publishers are MGM Pictures Music, Sony / ATV and Famous Music (Paramount).

Performed on 4 Gold and Platinum Awards for the recording artists Lifehouse, Matt Nathanson , Quiet Riot, The Players Association, Gloria Gaynor, The Ring, David Hasselhoff, and Two Sisters.

He his music career in New York in the 1980's as a successful recording industry studio musician/arranger (keyboards and synthesizer programming), playing on a variety of hit records. He worked as A&R as well as a producer at Silverblue / Sony Records.

Wrote several theme songs for Paramount Television after moving to California in 1985.

Attended SUNY of New York, U.S.C. as a post graduate, and is a graduate of Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford.

Has given lectures and appeared on panels including: NARAS Conference (Grammy Awards); U.C.L.A., Los Angeles; The Turner Classic Movies Composer's Symposium and Conference, Los Angeles; Hollywood Film Festivals, McGeorge School of Law; University of San Francisco; West Coast Songwriters; Sundance / Utah Music Jam Symposium; A.E.S. Panel and Dolby Labs, San Francisco and Hartt College of Music.
- IMDb mini biography by: Barry Schuloff

Marcus' sister was married to Bobby Van, pianist and owner of Bobby Van's Restaurant in Bridgehampton, New York. Marcus grew up surrounded by, and would occasionally play piano for the various Southern writers who congregated around the keyboard at Bobby's. Authors such as Irwin Shaw, Truman Capote, Willie Morris, Winston Groom, John Knowles, and James Jones. Also Carl Bernstein, Budd Schulberg, and George Plimpton would occasionally drop by to have a listen.

Distant cousin of actor John Megna.

Studied jazz with Jackie Mclean and Tommy Mars (from Frank Zappa).