Mark Springer

Mark Springer first began playing gigs with the experimental rock band The Pop Group. The group's members had been Springer's schoolmates.^[1] In 1981, Springer formed Rip Rig + Panic with Gareth Sager and Bruce Smith, two former members of Pop Group. After Rip Rig + Panic disbanded in 1983, Springer began recording as a solo artist. His debut album titled Piano was released in 1984 and consisted of numerous solo piano recordings.^[2]

With Rip Rig + Panic

• God (1981)
• I Am Cold (1982)
• Attitude (1983)
• Circa Rip Rig + Panic (2017) – Recorded by Mark Springer and members of Rip Rig + Panic with singer from Velvet Underground, Nico.

As a solo artist

• Piano (1984)
• Swans And Turtles – with Sarah Sarhandi (1990)
• Menu (1991)
• Eye (1998)
• Capture (1999)
• Nature/Music/Food/The Stars and The Planets – featuring drummer Clive Deamer (2000)
• Metonic: Music for Solo Piano & Piano Quartet (2002)
• Solo Situation (2004)
• E.T.A. N.Y.C.: Jazz Standards and Original Compositions (2005)
• Diving (2018)
• Menu 2 (2016)
• The Watching Bird (2017)
• The Rip Rig + Panic Piano Solos (2018)

Collaborations

• Triptych by the Pax Trio with Mark Springer, David Wright and Sirish Kumar (2006)
• First Light by the Pax Trio with Mark Springer, David Wright and Sirish Kumar (2009)
• Aparat – duo with Mark Springer and Arthur Jeffes of Penguin Cafe (2016)
• Sleep of Reason – with Neil Tennant and the Sacconi Quartet (2025)^[3]

Original music score compositions

• Weekend – feature film by Barnaby Southcombe
• London Kills Me – with Sarah Sarhandi; feature film by Hanif Kureishi (1991)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders – with Jim Parker; Granada Television series (1996)
• The Fallout Guy – BBC drama, directed by Paul Tickell (1991)
• The House – film short by Sam Hodgkin
• ITV Documentary on the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington
• BBC documentary film on Mark Springer and his father, the artist, Michael Springer
• Das Erde – documentary for German TV
• Fatto a Mano – film short by S. Killery
• L'Amour Fou – French art house documentary
• The Potentino Concerto – film short by Agnieszka Biolik