About

Ron Passaro is a composer for Film, TV and Musical Theater.

Ron’s film music has recently been featured in 100+ festivals worldwide, including the Seattle International Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, VisionFest, Anaheim International Film Festival (audience award, best live-action short film), Breckenridge Festival (best film award), the Palm Springs International ShortFest and the Palm Beach International Film Festival (best short film award).

Recent awards include Best Original Score at the 2010 Long Island International Film Expo, an award at the 2010 Indie Gathering International Film Scoring Competition, Best Original Theme in a Motion Picture at the 2011 Garden State Film Festival and a Gold Medal for Excellence in Music for a Short Film at the 2011 Park City Film Music Festival.

In 2011 alone, Ron has sold over 700 licenses to his music for commercial use in film, TV and online projects.

Ron was honored to have been asked to write a brass fanfare performed by the West Point Band in honor of the West Side Presbyterian Church’s centennial celebration. It premiered at the church to a full audience on October 14th, 2011. You can read more about it HERE.

Ron is also currently providing orchestrations for the new Pound Puppies and My Little Pony television series airing on “The Hub” TV network.

Here’s the latest song from My Little Pony by Daniel Ingram which Ron orchestrated. It aired on December 17th, 2011:

Ron studied music and orchestration with Osvaldo Golijov at the College of the Holy Cross where he received the Beethoven Award for outstanding composition. He continued on to get his MFA at the Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU and studied small ensemble composition with Conrad Cummings at The Juilliard School. Ron also attended Hollywood orchestrator Scott Smalley’s Advanced Orchestration Course: “The Art and Craft of Orchestration for Film & TV.”