Gary Marlowe (born March 7, 1967, in Berlin) is a German musician, composer and music producer.
Crystal Pine Award winner Gary Marlowe began playing piano at four. He started as a professional musician in 1980s Berlin, as a composer and synthesizer specialist, and soon went on to become a No.1 hit songwriter and a Gold Record-winning music producer. He studied Composition for Film with the Oscar winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.
With his ensemble Echoes of Space, Gary Marlowe creates immersive 3D Audio live concerts, co-produced with 2025 Grammy winner Hans-Martin Buff (Peter Gabriel).
Gary Marlowe´s body of work includes many record releases, among them a No. 1 hit single and various Top Ten chart entries, recordings with progressive thrash metal acts Coroner and Rage, sharing the stage with Iggy Pop and The Ramones, compositions for art exhibitions like the Biennale di Venezia, and performances with international orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic and various Italian ensembles.
Gary Marlowe’s film scores include award-winning features such as “Everything Will Change” (with Wim Wenders), “Lautlos”, “Planeta 5000”, and the documentaries “The Milk System”, “A Place Called Los Pereira”, and “Alcohol”. He also composed music for series like “Inside the Stones” (with Nine Inch Nails and Moby), and the prime time drama series “Tatort”.
In 2018, Gary Marlowe officially received the title Steinway Artist.
In 2025, Gary Marlowe won the Crystal Pine Award at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Varazdin, Croatia, with his compositions for the film “Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?”.
He is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus, a member of the World Soundtrack Academy, the Ivors Academy, and the European Film Academy.
Marlowe developed his concept of aural frames, ambient music installations for indoor and outdoor spaces, in collaboration with painters, sculptors and video artists. Those were exhibited also by the Biennale di Venezia (music for a Richard Nonas exhibition) and Scatola Bianca ("requiem | repeat", personal exhibition in collaboration with Gianni Moretti).
Gary Marlowe is a 2025 Crystal Pine Award winner, a five times Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010), and was nominee at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2012.
Official acknowledgement as a “STEINWAY ARTIST” by Steinway & Sons.
“When Paul came over the Sea”: WINNER 20th Shanghai International Film Festival. NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany.
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