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Born in Madrid (Spain) in 1963, Marco Werba has lived in Rome, Italy since 1966. He is a versatile composer and has an extensive background in the music field, earning a Degree in Composition and Choral Conducting. He also studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York attending workshops in composition, orchestration and Film music. In addition, he studied conducting at the Academie de Guerande in France.
For the film music magazines Soundtrack and Cinemascore he interviewed a range of notables in the field including Jerry Goldsmith, Stanley Meyers, John Scott, Gabriel Yared and Philippe Sarde. He has served on the jury of the International Film Festival of Messina, and he created the film music workshop "Music for Images" and the international film music competition, the “Mario Nascimbene Award.”
His first musical score, in 1989, for director Cristina Comencini’s film Zoo won the prestigious Italian “Colonna Sonora” Award, when Ennio Morricone and Francis Lai, received “Colonna Sonora – Lifetime Achievement Awards”. Marco Werba has gone on to score a range of historical dramas including Anita–Una Vita per Garibaldi (Anita, a life for Garibaldi), and, in collaboration with Academy-Award winning composer Francis Lai, Amore e Libertà, Masaniello (Love of Freedom). He often works in the Horror and Thriller genres, most recently composing the soundtrack of Giallo, the pulp thriller by cult horror director Dario Argento, starring Adrien Brody. This score won the “Fantasy & Horror Award”, the “Fantafestival Award 2010 ” and the “Fantasy Horror Cine Festival Award 2011 ”.
He is noted for his work as a film score composer but has also written a number of classical concert pieces including Adagio for the victims of Auschwitz, Dark Symphony and Symphonic Tango.
In 2011 Marco Werba received the “Globo d'Oro” Award (“Golden Globes” of the Foreign Press Association in Italy) for the music of the thriller Native, directed by John Rea
"Producers proposed the names of six composers, to me. Among them, was Marco Werba, who I knew for a long time, because he was one of my admirers and was working on "Zoo", a movie my daughter Asia was playing the main role in. I listened to Marco's music and I have chosen him for my film. I am very satisfied with the film score he wrote for "Giallo".Dario Argento (from the interview by Lorenzo Ricciardi)
The original score composed by Marco Werba for Giallo, Dario Argento’s latest film, is dense, varied and very strong. The work accomplished by Marco Werba is very impressive. He is an excellent composer, as his beloved Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Hermann, very rigorous in his work. Let’s hope that his exceptional work for Giallo will help him in writing high budget film scores.
Emmanuel Rouglan (from Giallo’s score review)
The film « Love of freedom » is set in 1647, in Italy. Marco wrote a beautiful, dramatic score with moving pieces for string ensemble and equally beautiful and evocative arrangements for wind instruments. The main theme sends shivers down my spine every time I listen to it. Marco Werba is definitely one of Itay's best hidden gems and it's about time he gets the recognition he deserves.
Godwin Borg (from the article "Emotion made music")
For a number of years I have followed the film music career of composer Marco Werba with great interest, he is in every sense of the word a Maestro. « Anita » is a gem of a soundtrack, and is scored for a small orchestra; mainly strings, guitar and woodwinds with minimal use of percussion and horn. This is an interesting and certainly pleasurable release, and one that I would certainly recommend without any reservation.
John Mansell (from the review of the CD "Anita")
FEATURE FILMS
CELA S’APPELLE L’AMOUR - MARCEL HANOUN (1987)
ZOO - CRISTINA COMENCINI (1988)
A DIO PIACENDO - FILIPPO ALTADONNA (1994)
L’ABBORDAGGIO - MAURIZIO IMBRIALE (1995)
LA CACCIA, IL CACCIATORE, LA PREDA - ANDREA MARZARI (1998)
IL CONTE DI MELISSA - MAURIZIO ANANIA (2000/2001)
IL DIARIO DI UN PRETE - MARCO CERCACI (2005)
AMORE E LIBERTA' - ANGELO ANTONUCCI (2006)
DARKNESS SURROUNDS ROBERTA - GIOVANNI PIANIGIANI (2007)
ANITA - AURELIO GRIMALDI (2008)
FEARMAKERS - TIMO ROSE (2008)
BEAST - TIMO ROSE (2008)
COLOUR FROM THE DARK - IVAN ZUCCON (2009)
GIALLO - DARIO ARGENTO (2009)
BRAINCELL - ALEX BIRRELL (2010)
MR. HUSH - DAVID LEE MADISON (2011)
NATIVE - JOHN REAL (2011)
LACRIME DI S.LORENZO - GIAMPIERO CAIRA (2012)
THE INFLICTED - MATTHAN HARRIS (2012)
BELLEROFONTE - DOMIZIANO CRISTOPHARO (2013)
BORDER RUN - GABRIELA TAGLIAVINI (2013)
NERO INFINITO - GIORGIO BRUNO (2013)
LA DOMENICA DEL SIGNORE - GIANNI VIRGADAULA (2013)
PRO WRESTLERS VS ZOMBIES - CODY KNOTTS (2014)
CALIBRO 10 - MASSIMO IVAN FALSETTA (2014)
IL SANGUE CALDO DI BAHIA - AURELIO GRIMALDI (2014)
BALLANDO IL SILENZIO - SALVATORE ARIMATEA (2015)
I FIORI DEL MALE - CLAVER SALIZZATO (2016)
FRATELLI DI SANGUE - PIETRO TAMARO (2016)
CONTROTEMPO - AURELIO GRIMALDI (2016)
MADE IN CHINA NAPOLETANO - SIMONE SCHETTINO (2017)
GELONE, LA SPADA E LA GLORIA - GIANNI VIRGADAULA (2018)
SEGUIMI - CLAUDIO SESTIERI (2018)
L'ESTATE SENZA RITORNO - BESNIK BISHA (2018)
POP POSTA - MARCO POLLINI (2018)
THE RIGHT CHOICE - ANTONIO BAIOCCO (2019)
WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN - JACOB SICILIANO (2019)
1000: THE SWORD IN THE STONE - GUIDO MARIA GIORDANO (2010)
AFTER THE WAR - SURI KRISHNAMMA (2020)
DU - GUSTAVO LETELIER (2020)
IL GUANTO E LA ROSA - GIANNI VIRGADAULA (2020)
THE POLITENESS OF KINGS - TONY LONDON (2020)
MCCIA FIGLIA SI SPOSA - FLORINDA MARTUCCIIO RESTO COSI' - MARCO POLLINI (2020)MARCO POLLINI (2017)MARCO POLLINI (2017)
THE SEA GHOST - ARA PAIAYA (2020)
HELL TOWN - LUIGI PARISI (2020)
GOODNIGHT MARILYN - DREW ROSEMBERG (2020)
FALSE AFFAIRS - IAN C. GLOVER (2020)
RED DEATH - ANTONIO BAIOCCO (2020)
MEN OF THE WEST - ROCK JACOBS (2020)
THE ROSE IN THE FLAME - JOSEPH LEFEVRE (2020)
PROPHET OF THE THRD REICH - JULIA PIERREPONT (2020)
THE KISS - REMI VAUGHN (2020)
KING SEED - ANTONIO BAIOCCO (2020)
THE GLASS CIRCLE - ROB MARCHITTI (2020)
THE INTRUDER 3D - ROB MARCHITTI (2020)
GIALLO NEGLI OCCHI - GIOVANNI ALOISIO (2020)
WAY OF THE URBAN SOUL - ISSAC C8AAD (2020)
HOME - BRIAN FRANKLIN (2020)
MOHAWK SALON - STEVEN JUDD (2020)
THE TIME OF LIBERTY - JOHN REAL (2020)
AN ANGEL'S STORY - LUDOVIC BERNARD (2020)
LA NOTTE DEL VINO AMARO - GIANNI VIRGAULA (2020)
YAKSHA 3D - SRIDHAR RANGANATH (2020)
THE SECRET OF BOTTICELLI - LORENZO RAVEGGI (2020)
THE ANATOMIST - GABRIELA TAGLIAVINI (2020)
VAN - LUDOVIC BERNARD (2020)
THE LEGACY OF AVRIL KYTE - DAVID SAVERS (2020)
BRAANN OF PANGEA - ERIC STYLES (2020)
GLADIATOR GLADIATRIX - FRANK KRAMER (2020)
BOTTICELLI MURDERS - LORENZO RAVEGGI (2020)
MAMA ANNA - DIANA ANGELSON (2020)
RELATIVE STRANGERS - LUDOVIC BERNARD (2020)
SEE NAPLES AN DIE - ROB MARCHITTI (2020)
MACHIAVELLI - LORENZO RAVEGGI (2020)
GRIMMERSON MANOR - ROB MARCHITTI (2020)
SONG WITHOUT END - ANTONIO BAIOCCO (2020)
WHO STOLE THE APPLE IN NEW YORK? - ANTONIO BAIOCO (2021)
REBIRTH OF CROWNING GLORY - STEVEN JUDD (2021)
LE PLUS BEL HOMME DU MONDE - DIANA ANGELSON (2021)
SHORT FILMS
103 - LEONARDO FERRANTINI (1987)
SPECCHI - VIRGINIA BARRETT (1996)
DOTTOR JEKYLL - ROBERTO TALAMO (1997)
IL MUSEO DEGLI ORRORI - LUCILLA FRANCHETTI (1999)
IL BEL MARITO - CLARITA DI GIOVANNI (2006)
IL PROIEZIONISTA - ROBERTO LOIACONO (2007)
FOCOLARE DOMESTICO - MAURIZIO FAILA (2008)
SECRETUM SECRETORUM - GERMANO DI MATTIA (2009)
LA VERITA', SIGNORA MIA - RENATO MARIANI (2010)
IL PROFUMO DEL CUORE D'ORO - VINCENZO BOCCIARELLI (2011)
TAPE BOY - MAURIZIO FAILA (2011)
IL PITIGLIANI, LA VOCE DEI BAMBINI - ALICE WERBLOWSKY (2012)
JACK ATTACK - BRYAN NORTON AND ANTONIO PADOVAN (2013)
MISDIRECTION - ANTONIO PADOVAN (2013)
UNA STORIA BARBARA - DANIELE MASSA (2014)
PER VENDETTA - ALESSANDRO GRASSI (2014)
SOLITUDINI PERICOLOSE - EMANUELE PECORARO (2014)
SMOKE - ASHLEY AVIS (2015)
ROMA, LA CUCINA SVELATA - VITTORIO ANTONACCI (2015)
LA FIGLIA DEL TEMPO - GIOVANNI VISENTIN (2015)
APOCALYPSE'S ANGEL - FRANCO NERO (2016)
FARIDA - MOHAMED ZOUAOUI (2016)
Weblinks
https://www.facebook.com/marco.werba
