Wolfram de Marco

Wolfram de Marco (born 1966) is a German Los Angeles-based music composer and arranger. He received his first violin lessons at the age of six.

Biography
By age 14 he began playing classical and electric guitar and soon garnered prestigious awards at the German "Jugend Musiziert" competition. After high school he studied classical guitar and piano at the university "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Wuerzburg, Germany. While still a student he was already working as a live and session player in many different musical styles and after finishing his studies, he recorded a solo album for classical guitar.

He moved to Frankfurt in 1994 and in the following years his interest shifted more and more towards writing and producing music, working on soundtracks for high profile tv commercials, award winning corporate movies and releasing his own Electronica/Drum'n Bass tracks under the project name OON. After scoring his first projects for German Television, he decided in 1999 to move to Los Angeles, California.

In 2003 Wolfram de Marco was one of 15 composers selected out of 300 applicants worldwide to participate in the prestigious "ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop". That same year he started to work as an Arranger/Programmer and additional Composer on several projects at Hans Zimmer's former company Media Ventures - now Remote Control Productions.

In 2005, he recorded his score for "THE WEDDING PARTY" with the London Metropolitan Orchestra in the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios in London. In 2007, he recorded and conducted the score for the German television movie "Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt" with the Filmorchester Babelsberg in Berlin. In 2008, he came back in London with the London Metropolitan Orchestra where he recorded his score for the Belgian thriller "LOFT".

"LOFT" achieved critical acclaim and became a Belgian box office sensation and is now the most successful Belgian movie of all time. The original soundtrack was released worldwide by MovieScoreMedia and iTunes.

Personal life
Wolfram continues working with orchestras all over the world, having scored “Schicksalsjahre”, the highest scoring German television movie in 2011 and “Fünf Freunde” with a very successful cinema release in 2012. Wolfram de Marco now lives with his wife, actress Marie-Alise Recasner, in Los Angeles, California.