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