Marco Girgenti
Composer · Arranger · Actor
With over 30 years of experience as a live and studio composer, arranger, and musician, Marco Girgenti has conducted Off-Broadway musicals, scored television commercials and themes, and collaborated on Juno Award–winning albums. As a music educator, he taught theory, composition, and multiple instruments to private students across Canada.
From arranging for 80-voice choirs and full orchestras to East Indian percussion ensembles, children’s albums, and R&B quartets, Marco’s creative reach spans genres and cultures. His work as a music director in several Toronto-area churches—and as worship producer for events across North America and abroad—further cemented his reputation as a deeply versatile and spiritually grounded composer.
Marco has appeared on national television (100 Huntley Street) and collaborated internationally with artists from the U.S. to Germany. As an in-session arranger, he has worked with A-list studio musicians whose resumes include icons like Michael W. Smith, Reba McEntire, Josh Groban, Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Madonna, and even the Jackson 5.
He co-wrote and produced for the Sony-signed pop trio b4-4 (now known as RyanDan), and became one of the most decorated composers in the world of synchronized skating—his work even featured at the Winter Olympics and in routines by skating legend Elvis Stojko.
Marco’s music has been described as “epic” by international recording artist Mark Masri (David Foster, The Tenors) and “deeply passionate and moving” by none other than the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Hateful Eight).
His recent single “Amore É”, performed by Mark Masri, received immediate airplay on Italian-Canadian radio and has been selected—along with another of Marco’s compositions—for an upcoming series by celebrity chef David Rocco.
Marco is also one of the original judges for the world-renowned Elvis & Co. Festival (sanctioned by Elvis Presley Enterprises), held annually in Muskoka, Ontario. He shares the panel with Grammy® winner Linda Thompson (The Bodyguard) and two-time Juno nominee Alex Bird, and will return again in 2025. Marco has several collaborations in the works and is working with ETA sensation Connor Russo as he develops his own material.
A Return to the Stage—And the Studio
In addition to composing, Marco is an actor who has appeared in both television series and feature films, typically in powerful, intense lead roles that mirror the emotional depth of his music.
After stepping away from the music industry for over a decade, Marco virtually disappeared from the scene. “The last time I was a music director,” he says, “I had to prove to people that I was a musician—because I was in the industry pre-Google.”
Now, as he puts it, he’s being “slowly but surely pulled back in.”
The result is what you’re seeing unfold through this site—a return to his first love. Marco is currently preparing to release his first full-length album: a mix of new material and previously unreleased works that have quietly waited “in the vault” for over 25 years.