Mark Daniel Dunnett

Mark Daniel Dunnett is an award winning composer. He is known for scoring the light drama feature film “Papa” (starring Paul Sorvino, Daryl Hannah, Robert Scott Wilson, Ann Marget, David Proval, Vincent Pastore, Michael Madsen and Mischa Barton.) Mark’s score to “Papa” earned him 3 Best Original Score festival wins and 3 nominations including for Best Original Score at the prestigious The Paris Art and Movie Awards, Paris, France. “Ambition’s Debt” (starring (Nathan Darrow) of which, Mark received a Best Original Score Win at the Copenhagen International Film Festival and a nomination for “Best Original Music” at the IBFF Nashville film festival. Award winning thriller “The Sin Seer”(starring Isaiah Washington, C. Thomas Howell, Michael Ironside and Salli Richardson-Whitfield), and U.S. AMC box office release family drama feature film “Grandma’s House” (starring Popstar/actress Coco Jones and Primetime Emmy winning actress Loretta Devine.) His T.V. credits include music for OWN network , C.S.I., Super Soul Sunday, Help Desk and more.

Born in Toronto Canada, Mark’s interest in music started when he was twelve years old after he appropriated his father’s guitar. Practicing ten hours a day for many years, Mark then played and performed in various bands, with a focus on guitar instrumental music.

Enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Mark eagerly studied for two years, with a focus on classical theory, harmony and piano. The Royal Conservatory was the beginning of Mark’s musical education, which ultimately led him to Boston’s fabled Berklee College of Music, where he earned a B.A. in Film Scoring and Composition. While at Berklee, Mark studied under the late world renowned Harvard and Berklee professor and classical composer John Bavicchi. During this time, Mark was also featured in Guitar World Magazine’s prestigious Mike Varney Home Town Heroes column, for outstanding guitar instrumental composition.

Mark has scored and recorded orchestral music with live ensembles and full orchestras. The film scores to “Papa” and “Ambition’s Debt” were both recorded live with full orchestra with the F.R.A.M.E.S project orchestra in Macedonia.

Mark, is also a multi instrumentalist proficient in guitar ( electric, acoustic classical and dobro), piano, ukulele, bass, and mandolin.