Michael John Mollo is a composer for film, television and video games. Mollo draws his inspiration from great modern film composers including his mentor John Powell, Trent Reznor and Clint Mansell. Mollo's music covers a diverse set of genres from gritty industrial action to folk/Americana to modern dramatic orchestral scoring. His fingerprints can be found on many of the biggest film scores of the last decade including, 'Rio', 'The Lorax' and the Oscar nominated score for Dreamwork's 'How to Train Your Dragon.' Mollo grew up in New York and Pennsylvania and honed his skills studying post-minimalist composition and jazz arranging in The College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati before attending the USC film scoring program in 2007. Mollo works scoring films, television and video games from his studio in Santa Monica, CA and oversees global operations for the production music catalog, Velvet Green Music. "I've always felt that music has a utilitarian purpose... to make you feel something specific at any given moment. So it was natural that I was drawn to film music. A great score can lift you up, make you cry or toss you around like a paper bag. I love that. And that is why I do what I do"

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