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Dark Cinematic 2022

For practice, I decided to score a scene from the classic Hitchcock film "Vertigo"

At First Sight

NMRiH 2 - OST

NMRiH 2 OST - Angel's Plea - Panic Version

"Offrande" ("Offering") for piano solo, beautifully performed and recorded by the amazing Phil Best, to whom I give my profound thanks.

Score available for purchase at: http://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-offrande-for-solo-piano/

Offrande (performed and recorded by Phil Best)(Op. 88, 2013)

excerpt from the score for Rolando Joseph Herrera's short film DROWN

Drown OST

excerpt from the score to Rolando Joseph Herrera's short film LAST NIGHT

Last Night OST

LONG WALK

Long Walk

My composition "J", composed on September 13, 2014, in memory of J. K. Randall. This recording was made at the Tintinabulary on December 4, 2014. The piano is an 1890 Chickering 8' grand.

J 140913 (141204)

This track was created for the horror film "Chemical Peel" released by Lionsgate.

Chemical Peel- Driving to the house

This sad and wistful piano solo was composed during multiple depressions in my life. I wrote the second movement while I was 13. At a time I was dealing with aggressive bullying and tremendous anger. 
I later wrote what would be the first movement while I was in Highschool and found myself becoming depressed as the relentless bullying continued. 
The third movement was written in the style of a funeral march during my freshman year of college.
Many things ended for me that year. The music composition program at my college was cut, I lost my dear pet dog, and I lost my faith due to some bigotry I experienced in the church.
I then spent several years perfecting these melodies and was able to studio record the piece in 2020, recorded by the pianist Edward Cohen. 
I hope these relentless emotional exaltations can also heal you of some of the anger and hurt you’ve experienced as you listen.

The Elegy - Piano Sonata One

Mark Thomas Taylor has worn many musical hats: composer, improviser, orchestral freelancer, chamber musician, teaching artist, bandleader and studio musician (He was even in a hip hop video once…).  In addition to several new chamber works, including “3 Songs About Puppetry” (commissioned by the principal Hornist of the Michigan Philharmonic), Mark has written and recorded the score for “Last Days of Coney Island” for famed animator/director Ralph Bakshi, placed two songs in the Dollface Productions independent feature film "The Girl" and scored the documentaries “9/11 Fear In Silence” for JadeFilms and Camille Billops’ "A String of Pearls”. Other projects include “It’s Not Like He’s Never Been There Before”, a multi-movement orchestral work, commissioned by the Tri-Centric Foundation and a series of transcriptions of the work of seminal jazz bandleader James Reese Europe’s 369th “Hellfighters” military band for the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble. Mark has released four CDs of all original material, QuietLand, Circle Squared, At What Age and Live At The Freight (co-led with composer/saxophonist Jessica Jones).
One of the few performers to successfully integrate the notoriously difficult French Horn into the landscape of jazz and improvised music, Taylor’s broad musical background includes performing, composing and arranging. In addition to leading his own ensembles, Mark has also performed and recorded with an array of modern jazz giants including: Max Roach, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton.

At First Sight

Mark Thomas Taylor | Composer