For Good Measure

MARCUS NORRIS’ (b. 1991) first foray into making music came in the form of producing rap beats on pirated software, installed on a Windows 98 computer that he Macgyvered together from spare parts while lying on the floor of his childhood bedroom. He came to composing concert music later in life and transferred that same imagination to writing music fusing all kinds of influences. Called a “New Musical Talent in our Midst” by Chicago’s N’digo Magazine, Norris was selected as an inaugural Composer-in-Residence for the Chicago Philharmonic from 2021- 24 and for the 2020 LA Philharmonic’s National Composers Intensive. In 2020 he founded South Side Symphony - the only orchestra that would perform “Back That Thang Up” on the same concert as Beethoven.