Mark Baechle

Film Composition

Primary Academic Program: Bard Conservatory of Music

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music: Composition

Biography:

Mark Baechle is a Swiss-born, New York based composer and music producer. He primarily works in film and television.

Throughout his 20-year career in the industry, he has collaborated with some of the most acclaimed filmmakers and musicians of our time.

At the outset of his career he was an assistant to the luminary composers Elliot Goldenthal and John Corigliano.

Under the aegis of composer Marcelo Zarvos, he provided arrangements and additional music to the acclaimed TV series “Ray Donovan”, “The Affair”, “Extant” and “The Big C”.

He also arranged, recorded and mixed all the music for “Disney’s Little Einsteins”, a cartoon series introducing art and classical music to children, the soundtrack of which was nominated for a Grammy Award (2007).

Besides composing his own scores, he’s in demand as an orchestrator for films and, as such, has contributed to the scores of David Newman, Clint Mansell, Nicholas Britell and many more.

Mark is also active as a composer of vocal, chamber and orchestral music. His work has been performed by notable artists and ensembles (New York Festival of Song, the Ahn Trio, Basel Sinfonietta).

He studied at the pre-college division of the Academy of Music and Schola Cantorum Basel (Switzerland) and graduated from Berklee College of Music with a BA in Film Scoring.

Mark is represented by Rochelle Sharpe at Incite Management
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