Mark Warman

Mark Warman (born 5 August 1961) is a British conductor, musical director, composer, orchestrator, and educator. He has worked in London's West End on musical productions, orchestrated and conducted albums, and TV and film scores.

Early life Warman was born in Kingston upon Thames, and attended the Tiffin School. He studied music at King's College, Cambridge, where he sang in its Chapel Choir and eventually became the musical director of the Footlights Revue in 1983.

Musical director At the age of 23, Warman began his West End career as musical director of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, which ran for 16 months at the Wyndham's Theatre. For EMI, he conducted an orchestral version of the score by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley at Abbey Road Studios.

Warman served as the musical director, Conductor, or Arranger for over 100 shows in the West End and abroad.

Work With Stephen Sondheim Mark Warman and Julia McKenzie together at the Stephen Sondheim Competition. Over the course of his career, Warman has worked with Stephen Sondheim multiple times. In 1998, Warman was the musical director for the first UK production of Sondheim's Saturday Night Sweeney Todd for Holland Park Opera Company in the UK

Work With Carl Davis Warman has also had a long working career with American conductor and musician Carl Davis. Together, they have orchestrated several scores for TV series and movies, including the 1995 series of Pride and Prejudice - a film by Brady Corbet, starring Natalie Portman and The Childhood Of A Leader at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole and The Rivals for the Chichester Festival Theatre; and Three Hours After Marriage

Lost Musicals (1990 - 2013) Ian Marshall Fisher, artistic director of Lost Musicals, Allegro and Trouble in Tahiti. Warman went on to musically direct a further 15 shows in this project: Greenwillow (1991), DuBarry Was a Lady (1993), Music in the Air (1993), Red, Hot and Blue (1994), Love Life (1995), Of Thee I Sing (1996), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1997), As Thousands Cheer (1998), I'd Rather Be Right (1999), Evening Primrose Metropolis - 1989 Original London Cast - Music Director Children of Eden - 1993 Original London Cast - Keyboards A Year in Provence - 1993 Original Soundtrack - Keyboards, Arranger Moll Flanders - 1993 Original London Cast - Orchestrator, Producer Chess In Concert - 2008 Concert Cast - Music Director The Childhood Of A Leader - 2016 Original Soundtrack - Orchestrator, Conductor Mary Poppins Returns - 2018 Original Soundtrack - Keyboards Vox Lux - 2018 Original Soundtrack - Orchestrator, Conductor Minus - 2018 Daniel Blumberg - Choir Director

Personal life Warman lives in London. He represents himself and still continues to record albums for shows, groups, and solo artists.