Four decades of turning bold ideas into unforgettable sound.

Anthony Marinelli’s musical touch is connected with the most influential creative minds of the last 40 years. He’s been heard as both composer and performer in every genre and style of music and is equally accomplished at writing large-scale orchestral film scores as he is at programming and performing analog synthesizers. Anthony’s intuitive personality combined with extensive musical training allows him to understand and quickly convert the vision of elite artists and directors into memorable music.

Anthony has recorded with a wide range of international music stars such as Michael Jackson (Thriller, #1 selling album of all time), James Brown, Lionel Richie, Van Halen, Supertramp, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, Kenny Loggins, The Crystal Method; jazz greats Billy Childs, Dianne Reeves, Herb Alpert, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band; Thievery Corporation, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, Guru, Digital Underground, Julio Iglesias and Ozomatli; and international artists Seiko, Koreana, Falco, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Adriano Celentano.

Marinelli has penned over 90 original film soundtracks, including Young Guns (box office #1), 2 Days in the Valley (Charlize Theron), The Man from Elysian Fields (Mick Jagger), Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift, Chapter 27 (Jared Leto), American Gun (James Coburn), The Human Contract (directed by Jada Pinkett Smith), Internal Affairs (Richard Gere), Leaving Las Vegas (Nicolas Cage), Timecode, Hotel, Planes, Trains & Automobiles (directed by John Hughes), Demolition Man and Let It Ride (Richard Dreyfuss). His work also includes the critically acclaimed documentaries Mayor of the Sunset Strip, River of Gold and Midnight Return, as well as the video-game score for Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars.

His programming and performance screen credits include Starman (Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score); works by Giorgio Moroder such as The NeverEnding Story II, Over the Top and Cat People; the opening ceremonies of the Seoul Olympics and the FIFA World Cup; and the halftime show for Super Bowl XVII. He also contributed to film scores by Arthur B. Rubinstein, including WarGames (three Academy Award nominations), Blue Thunder and Stakeout. His numerous film scores with innovator Quincy Jones include The Color Purple (11 Academy Award nominations), where he worked alongside Steven Spielberg to develop the new “Polaroid” music mock-up technique that would become an industry-wide standard.

Marinelli’s television scores include Sliders, Angel Street, a live broadcast of On Golden Pond (Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer) and Hick Town (Barack Obama). Marinelli won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for the television show Santa Barbara.

In his advertising work, Anthony has won four Clio Awards, two AICP Awards, two ADDY Awards, three Telly Awards and a Cannes Silver Lion Award for his musical contributions to television commercials. He composed the music for the famous This Is Your Brain on Drugs campaign and more than 800 other spots across nearly every advertising sector, including multiple campaigns for Apple, various technology and automotive brands, and countless celebrity spots.

His large-scale orchestral work, In the Family Way, was commissioned by esteemed music director Leonard Slatkin and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Anthony Marinelli Score Catalog contains more than 62 hours of Anthony’s film and advertising music in a myriad of colorful styles, available for immediate one-stop licensing.

During his early years, Anthony studied synthesizer through private instruction with Clark Spangler and majored in composition and piano at the University of Southern California while simultaneously pioneering the live performance of modular synthesizers with his synth duo, The Synners. Soon after, he signed an artist deal with legendary New York hip-hop label Tommy Boy Records. Anthony soon found himself at the center of the ensuing music-technology revolution.

He co-founded Levels Audio Post, integrating a new style of mixing music and sound for television on shows such as American Idol, The Bachelor, The Academy Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards.

Anthony was exposed to innumerable symphonies, operas, musicals and ballets at a young age while visiting his father, a stage manager at Los Angeles’ Music Center. There he met legends Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Angela Lansbury, Carlo Maria Giulini and Zubin Mehta.