Mark Snow(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Mark Snow became a good friend with
Michael Kamen while they were studying
music at New York's Art and Music High School. After graduation, they
became roommates at Juilliard (an elite music school). After studying at
Juilliard, he became very fond of pop music. He, Michael Kamen and 3
others formed the New York Rock'n'Roll ensemble. The band was signed to
Atlantic Records and Mark toured and recorded with them for 5 years.
His interest then turned in writing film and television scores. He
began to write and relocated to Los Angeles in 1974. Mark's musical
composition career began in 1975 with the TV series,
Starsky and Hutch (1975),
and has taken off since then. However, he is best known for his work on
The X-Files (1993) and
Millennium (1996), he has made
music for many other programs. He took piano lessons at age ten and, by
the time he was twenty, he played both oboe and percussion.
