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 Baronefilm , 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.
