Mark Choi
Mark is a video game composer with a background as a classically trained pianist from the Royal Academy of Music. He has received an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Video Game Score (2025) for his scoring of Tower Five's Empire of the Ants, a photorealistic Unreal 5 RTS/exploration game, which was published by Microids in 2024. His further gaming work includes Breezy Bay (Talewind), Path of Kami (Captilight), and Hiboka (Flying Carpets Games), among more as of yet unannounced titles.
Since 2015, Mark has served as Resident Composer at Whole Hog Theatre, which predominantly draws from Japanese source material to create innovative anime-to-stage productions. He received an Offies nomination for Sound/Music in 2023 for their latest stage play adaptation, The Garden of Words, a film celebrating its 10th anniversary and created by one of anime's most beloved directors, Makoto Shinkai.
He has been nominated twice for a Game Music Remix Award (2021, 2023) for his piano arrangements and performances; additionally, he won the Quarantets competition hosted by the Videri String Quartet in 2020. Mark is also a resident arranger for the London Video Game Orchestra, creating orchestral medleys of popular franchises such as Street Fighter and Genshin Impact.
In his capacity as a performer, Mark played at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024 and recorded at Abbey Road for the game The Quiet Things. Mark has also played and recorded at O2 Wireless @ Hyde Park, Southbank Centre, ITV London Studios, Shepperton Studios, Snape Maltings and the Jazz Cafe as a soloist, session pianist or with the indie pop/rock band which he co-founded.
Mark recently founded the Sonaris Ensemble, a video game music quintet made up of professional musicians active in the video game space, performing and advocating for video game music. Their members have recorded, performed or arranged for a spectrum of franchises and titles, such as Horizon, Alan Wake, Baldur's Gate, Assassin's Creed and Hollow Knight. They partnered with the Guildhall School of Music for a video game music arrangement initiative in 2024, and played some of these arrangements in their debut performance at Somerset House in April 2025 as part of the London Games Festival.
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Mark Choi's CV
View our composer's list of TV and film credits here.
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Empire of the Ants - View project | Tower Five / Microids |
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Anchored Hearts: A Tales of Destiny (2024) | Studio Witchstar |
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Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - Arrangement | Larian Studios |
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Breezy Bay (2022) | Talewind Games |
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Path of Kami: Journey Begins (2021) | Captilight |
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Hiboka (Forthcoming) | Flying Carpet Games |
| Forthcoming Games TBA | Teazelcat Games |
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The Garden of Words (2023) | Whole Hog Theatre / Producer: Nelke Planning |
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