Chris Ruggiero in the studio

about chris Chris Ruggiero is an Emmy-nominated composer and music producer. Recent film scores include Resynator (available now on AppleTV), Camp Courage and The Martha Mitchell Effect (both on Netflix now), Guerilla Habeas (MSNBC 2023), One Child Nation (Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 2019), and Minding the Gap (2018 Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Feature). His original compositions currently appear in over 275 television series including The Voice, Pawn Stars, and American Pickers. Commercial credits include music for brands such as Taco Bell, Coke, HSN, Imodium, Dewars, Coppola Winery, and Liberty Mutual. As a music producer Ruggiero works with bands and artists across genres. From 2010-2019 he lectured on film, sound, and semiotics at the University of Bridgeport. Ruggiero writes about audio history at Preservation Sound.

Finding Yingying with original score by Chris Ruggiero and Nathan Halpern wins the Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Voice at SXSW Film Festival 2020:

"a deft portrait of a family on the razor's edge between hope and dread — precarious emotional terrain that the superb score, by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero, ably expresses."

Minding The Gap with original score by Chris Ruggiero and Nathan Halpern, opened in US theaters Friday August 17, 2018 to outstanding reviews:

"...the music and mood attain a melancholy perfection"

"an odyssey... cut to Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s achingly beautiful score"

"... owes its goose-bump-inducing power in part to Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s swirling piano score"

“The score by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero is sparse and beautiful and perfect”

"Watching the men skate during the opening credits sequence, propelled by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s wistful piano score, the act of skating transforms into a liberating art form"

Scores

Resynator
Camp Courage
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Minding the Gap movie poster
Impossibe Town
To Which We Belong
They/Them
Bully Coward Victim
One Child Nation movie poster
Blood Rider
Los Commandos movie poster
Call Her Ganda movie poster
Soundbreaking movie poster
I Am Another You movie poster
Hooligan Sparrow movie poster
Indian Point movie poster
Kehinde Wiley movie poster
What Was Ours movie poster

Additional Feature Film Music

Emily the Criminal
Will and Harper
The Sing Sing Chronicles
Swallow
Patti Cake$ movie poster
What Haunts Us movie poster
One Percent More Humid movie poster
The Witness movie poster
The Workers' Cup movie poster
All the President's Men Revisited program cover
Sticky Notes movie poster
Makers: Women Who Make America movie poster

Television

Chris's music is currently featured in over 275 television series, including:

Dirty Money
Dirty Money
Fatal Frontiers
Queer Eye
This is Hot 97
Diesel Brothers
Garage Gold
Moonshiners
CNN
Pawn Stars logo
American Pickers logo
Dukes of Melrose
tosh logo
the voice logo
Brain Game logo
Carson Daly logo
Flipping Out logo
Say Yes to the Dress logo
TRL logo
American Restoration logo
Cabin Fever logo
Counting Cars logo
Deals from the Darkside logo
Diggers logo
Lachey's Bar logo
Food Porn logo
Highway Cowboys logo
NY Ink logo
Rodeo Girls logo
La Voz Kids logo

Commercials

Diet Coke logo
Liberty Mutual logo
Taco Bell
HSN logo
Imodium logo
Dewars

Production

SMG VOl I
IF I ever
Enid Ze
Dust Hat
Tables album cover
Tomorrow Tomorrow album cover
Ula Ruth album cover
Stephen Kellog in the studio
Dez Paradise album cover