Early piano studies led to a lifelong passion for music with drums and percussion at its core. Drumming his way through High School Jazz Band and Orchestra he graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music's Film Scoring program.
Picking up a passion for songwriting, music production and mixing along the way, Mark can produce tracks from Pop and Rock to Electronica and classical.
He has composed scores for many short films from director Mark Wales including "Never Better", "The Montainge Value" and "Adm for Eve". He also scored a TV pilot aired on WGN and created music and live foley sound effects for the critically acclaimed LA adaptation of the futuristic/dystopian stage play "Extropia", which ran 11 sold out performances at King King in Hollywood, CA.
(LA Weekly review segment below)
Extropia Press
"...music director Mark Sparling and musician Miho Kajiwara
deserve credit for making the show a marvel. Relying on sounds from
such "found objects" as a hairbrush, a wooden spoon and a skillet cover
(OK, and of course, the omnipresent MacBooks), they provide live sound
effects for everything from tooth-brushing to factory machine-whirring,
and turn it into music"
