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Mark Orton
Baltimore, United States
Mark Orton is credited on 28 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1999–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
28
Pressings credited
16
Albums
4
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
Mark Orton (born ca. 1968) is an American composer and musician. An alumnus of the Peabody Conservatory and the Hartt School of Music, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based Tin Hat chamber music group As a film composer, he is probably best known for his scores for the Academy Award-nominated film Nebraska (2013) and the Academy Award-winning The Holdovers (2023), both directed by Alexander Payne. A recipient of a Sundance Composer Fellowship and nominee for Best New Composer by The International Film Music Critics Association, some of his other film credits as a composer include The Good Girl (2002), My Old Lady (2014) and Sweet Land (2006), while he has written or performed songs in films including Everything Is Illuminated (2005) and The Boxtrolls (2014). Orton lives in Portland, Oregon and is a collector of antique and unusual instruments.
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Credited work
28 releases · 16 albums · active 1999–2022
- Performance · 82
- Other credits · 18
- Production · 6
- Engineering · 4
- Mastering · 1
Studios: Mobius Music · Stupid Shack · Joe Hoffmann Studios · Big Hut Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Tin Hat Trio
- Tin Hat
- Faun Fables
- Dario Marianelli
- Loch Lomond
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