Mark Sayfritz

Mark Sayfritz (born 24 July 1967) is an English composer, record producer, sound and mixing engineer based in Los Angeles, USA. Specialising in motion picture scores & soundtracks, he collaborates regularly with director Darren Lynn Bousman.
==Career==
Sayfritz was a record producer and in-house writer for Jive Records before being signed up as a recording artist with Heavenly Records and EMI Records. As a composer, he worked on the TV series Snatch (2017), and has regularly worked with director Darren Lynn Bousman as a composer and film score for the films St. Agatha (2018), Abattoir (2016), and Death Of Me (2020). The soundtrack album to Abattoir was released by Filmtrax in 2016. Other films Sayfritz worked on include Dark Tide (2012, as Mark "Dog" Sayfritz), Dead Man Running (2009) and Until Death (2008).
His concert music symphony, Sound of Light, inspired by the Aurora Northern Lights and written in collaboration with artificial intelligence, had its premiere at the Brahms Saal Musikverein in Vienna in 2020.
==Personal life==
In 2021 Sayfritz married singer & recording artist Siobhan Fahey (Shakespears Sister, Bananarama).
== Selected Film & TV credits==
=== Notable Composer & Production credits ===
* 2022: Scared To Death (Short film - Composer)
* 2022: Scouting for Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret (TV Documentary Series - Composer)
* 2020: Death Of Me (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2020: Deadtectives (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2018: St. Agatha (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2017: Snatch (TV Series - Composer [Five Episodes])
* 2016: Abattoir - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Motion Picture Soundtrack - Composer, writer, Performer & producer) 
* 2016: Halfterlife (Short Film - Composer)
* 2016: He Took His Skin Off For Me (Short Film - Composer)
* 2013: The Devil You Know (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2012: Dark Tide (Feature Film - Composer) 
* 2011: The Great Ghost Rescue (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2009: Dead Man Running (Feature Film - Composer)
* 2007: Until Death (Feature film - Composer) 
* 2005: Matrioshki (episode 5)
==Selected discography==
=== Production credits ===
* 2016: Mark Sayfritz - Abattoir - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Soundtrack - Composer, writer, Performer & producer) 
* 2013: HK119 - Imaginature (Writing & Production Credit)
* 2009: John Ottman - Orphan - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Soundtrack - Writing, Composing & Production credit)
* 2004: Earth, Wind & Fire - All In The Way (single - Remix credit)
* 2002: DOG (aka Mark Sayfritz) - Bitten (album - Composer, Writer, Performer & Producer) 
* 2001: Ian Brown - Music Of The Spheres (album - Performance & Production credit)
* 1998: Goldie – Saturnz Return (album - Writing & Production credit)
* 1998: Gale & Ice - I'll Be There For You (single - Production credit)
* 1996: Mark Sayfritz - Ambient Beats (album - Composer, writer, Performer & producer) 
* 1992: If? - English Boys On The Love Ranch - (album - Production credit)
* 1991: Samantha Fox - Just One Night (album - Performance & Production credit) 
* 1991: Epo - Fire & Snow (album - Performance & Production credit)
* 1991: The Pasadenas - Elevate (album - Production credit)
* 1991: Ruby Turner - The Other Side (album - Writing & Arranging credit)
* 1990: Big Fun - A Pocketful Of Dreams (album - Writing & Arranging credit)
* 1990: Rave - Soul On Soul (single - Remix Credit)
* 1989: Ruby Turner - It's a Crying Shame (single - Remix credit)
* 1989: Dina Carroll - Walk On By (single - Production credit)
* 1989: Dina Carroll - People All Around The World (single - Production credit)
* 1989: Dina Carroll - Me Sienta Sola (We Are One) (single - Production credit)
* 1989: Q-Feel - Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be Bop) (single - Remix credit)
Category:1967 births
Category:English composers
Category:English record producers
Category:People from Wolverhampton