Marco Werba is an Academy Award composer born in Spain and moved to Rome, Italy in 1966. He is a versatile composer and has an extensive background in the music field, earning a Degree in Composition  and Choral Conducting. He also studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York attending workshops in composition, orchestration, and Film music. In addition, he studied conducting at the Academie de Guerande in France.

For the film music magazines Soundtrack and Cinemascore, he interviewed a range of notables in the field including Jerry Goldsmith, Stanley Meyers, John Scott, Gabriel Yared, and Philippe Sarde. He has served on the jury of the International Film Festival of Messina, and he created the film music workshop Music for Images and the international film music competition, the Mario Nascimbene Award.

His first musical score, in 1989, for director Cristina Comencini’s film Zoo won the prestigious Italian Colonna Sonora Award, when Ennio Morricone and Francis Lai, received Colonna Sonora – Lifetime Achievement Awards. Marco Werba has gone on to score a range of historical dramas including Anita–Una Vita per Garibaldi (Anita, a life for Garibaldi), and, in collaboration with Academy-Award winning composer Francis Lai, Amore e Libertà, Masaniello (Love of Freedom).

He often works in the Horror and Thriller genres, most recently composing the soundtrack of Giallo, the pulp thriller by cult horror director Dario Argento, starring Adrien Brody. This score won the Fantasy & Horror Award, the Fantafestival Award 2010 and the Fantasy Horror Cine Festival Award 2011.

He is noted for his work as a film score composer but has also written a number of classical concert pieces including Adagio for the victims of Auschwitz, Dark Symphony, and Symphonic Tango.

In 2011 Marco Werba received the Globo d’Oro Award (Golden Globes) of the Foreign Press Association in Italy for the music of the thriller Native, directed by John Real.