Marina Makarova (born 09/08/1985) in Russia, Izhevsk city.

Marina studied music professionally from the age of 5.

From 2000 - 2004 Marina won several prestigious all-Russian competitions for composers,

and became a laureate in the nominations for the Best Academic Instrumental and Vocal Music,

she became the winner of the improvisers' competition and received a special prize from the Union of Composers of Russia.
At the age of 12 she began working as a composer in theaters.
At the age of 19 Marina received her first feature film "Lovitor" by F. Abdullayev.

Graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow in 2012

(class of Musical Composition)
From 2004  works as a film composer.
During this time, she created music for more than 140 documentaries, about 30 feature films and TV series. As well as music for several cartoons.

Since 2016 has been collaborating with companies and directors from different countries.

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Since 2020 she has been living in the Netherlands.