RYAN WHITTIER

I’m currently creating and compiling a small collection of short solo piano works.  Some are brand new, and some are from recent years.  The moods of the pieces are generally nostalgic and wistful – some with a touch of mystery - and each of the compositions for this collection has a quality that makes it particularly effective as film score… a few of the pieces have already appeared as such.  I plan to release a recording of the pieces in 2013.

I am honored to be the recipient of a 2011-2012 ASCAPLUS award. This award “recognizes your creative contributions to American music this past year”.

I recently finished the original music for Redglass Pictures’ brand new short film about “millenials” for Mercer (a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies).  It was a fun and challenging project for me, since the soundtrack needed elements of indie, folk, and good old fashioned rock’n'roll; it gave me the opportunity to feature guitars and a vocal cameo, which I hadn’t done on a soundtrack since 2005.