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Mark Orton

Mark Orton is credited on 85 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1998–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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85

Pressings credited

16

Albums

4

Decades active

3

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

85 releases · 16 albums · active 1998–2025

  • Performance · 155
  • Other credits · 66
  • Engineering · 21
  • Production · 10
  • Mastering · 1

Studios: Market Street · Sage & Sound · Different Fur Studios · Mobius Music

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