Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is a composer and television producer based in Ireland

Mark started the company Score Draw Music in 2004 after a career as a musician that included recording 4 Peel Sessions, playing live shows in the USA, Russia, and Japan, and having tracks he had co-written placed on shows such as Malcolm in the Middle and Sesame Street. 

His composition work in Score Draw Music has included co-writing music for Dolly Parton to sing in a children’s animation series, a co-write in the 2018 Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water, and ongoing work across film, television and animation- as well as running the company on a day to day basis. He also co-created and is currently co-producing “Yukee” - a 52 x 7 2D pre-school music series for Cbeebies/BBC distributed by Aardman and airing from 2024.

Outside of work Mark is a member of the Ivors Academy Media Committee Board, dealing with ongoing issues for media composers around copyright, skills and opportunities. He also sits on the Future Screens NI Board, delivering expert technical skills, opportunity and growth across film and broadcast, animation, games and immersive technologies and industries in Northern Ireland, and sits on the board of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland. Mark also programmes Output Belfast - Ireland’s largest music conference.