Marcus Barone

Marcus Barone is a motion picture music executive, supervisor, composer, publisher and studio musician.

Mark or "Marcus" Barone was raised in Smithtown, New York. He was educated at the State University of New York, Hartt College of Music and University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His parents were Enrico Barone, a clothier in New York City and Marina Rita Barone a political activist / organizer, and a department store Interior Decorator in New York City and Smithown, NY. His very musical parents met while they were both taking singing and piano lessons.

Marcus would spend partial summers with his sister, Ms. Marina Van, who as a resident of Manhattan and East Hampton NY, was married to Bobby Van, pianist and saloon owner of Bobby Van's Restaurant in Bridgehampton, New York. [2] [3] 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 Budd Schulberg and George Plimpton would occasionally drop by to have a listen. [4]

In New York City, in the early 1980s, Marcus became a successful recording industry studio musician and arranger (keyboards and synthesizer programming), playing on a variety of hit recordings.

After relocating to Los Angeles California in 1985, he continued as a studio musician for most major labels specifically CBS Records , now Sony BMG Records, and wrote several theme songs for Paramount Television

In 1992, after scoring music for motion pictures, he switched to a business emphasis and became Director of Music and Music Supervisor at Motion Picture Corporation of America / Columbia TriStar in Los Angeles. Marcus worked on commercially released feature films including Dumb and Dumber, Behind Enemy Lines, HISSS and Gang Related [5]

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