He studied for three years with Emily Howard at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music, and subsequently with Professor Robert Saxton at the University of Oxford. Marco’s choral and instrumental works have been performed throughout the UK, Europe, and North America. Marco is an associate composer with Sansara Chamber Choir, and his compositions have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by a variety of choirs. While a composer with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Marco’s instrumental compositions were performed at Sage, Gateshead, Tate Modern, and Royal Festival Hall in London. In 2016 his first Chamber Opera, Rothschild’s Violin, was performed by New Chamber Opera, leading David Threasher from Gramophone to describe Marco as ‘a compositional voice of genuine promise’.