RYAN SAYWARD WHITTIER

I created custom film score music for a recent film commissioned by UN Women.

I’m grateful to have been awarded another ASCAP Plus consideration for my film scoring work.

The short documentary film “Ken Burns: On Story“, which I scored for Redglass Pictures, made its web debut on The Atlantic.  The film features the legendary Ken Burns discussing what he finds most compelling about the art of storytelling.

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

I created the 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.

The AFI | Discovery Channel SilverDocs Documentary Festival officially selected Miracle On 22nd Street to be one of the short films screened at the 2011 festival.  I’m thrilled by the accolades this film has received, and had a great time composing and recording the music for it.

Here’s a link to the short documentary film ‘Miracle on 22nd Street’, as featured on The New York Times home page on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, 2010:

Miracle on 22nd St from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo. I composed and recorded all the music in the week leading up to the debut of this true story of a genuine Christmas mystery by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason of Redglass Pictures.  I’m honored that Vimeo creator Blake Whitman gave a personal shout-out to the documentary, as well as to the music in its own right.

I composed, performed, and recorded the music for 14 short films at the National Museum of American Jewish History’s Only In America Hall of Fame exhibit in Philadelphia.  The museum’s grand opening to the public was November 26, 2010, and the Only In America biographical films are located on the museum’s first floor. The permanent exhibit was conceived and produced by Local Projects, the films were directed, shot, and edited by Redglass Pictures,  biographies include Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Brandeis, Albert Einstein, Mordecai Kaplan, Sandy Koufax, Esteé Lauder, Emma Lazarus, Isaac Leeser, Golda Meir, Jonas Salk, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rose Schneiderman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Henrietta Szold, and Isaac Mayer Wise.

Learn more about the National Museum of American Jewish History here: http://nmajh.org/