The Dude Abides And Creates Stuff
I’m a web developer and composer who creates daily in New York City and beyond. I am inspired by my clients and strive to create content that helps them stand out and shine. Areas of expertise include: web design, SEO, podcast production and branding, video production and editing, audio cleanup and custom music. I also created an efficient yet versatile one-page website template that this very site uses. And now you can buy it and have me and my team deliver your finished site with all your dope content added (text, images, video, colors and more).
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I completed the music for the musical “Queen of Mean – The Rise and Fall of Leona Helmsley” with collaborators David Lee and Alex Lippard. We’re excited to be moving into formal production with Tovah Feldshuh (Funny Girl, The Walking Dead, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Salvation) playing Leona. Tovah presented it in cabaret format to rave reviews at Feinstein’s/54 Below for 3 sold-out nights. It played Guild Hall in East Hampton and played the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center in Westhampton. The show sold out Feinstein’s/54 Below again to standing ovations. It had 2 sold-out shows at San Francisco’s Feinstein’s at the Nikko and sold out the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton and was invited back for 4 more shows.
I completed the score to the upcoming feature documentary, “Studio in the Sky,” that I co-scored with Shawn P. Russell. It was picked up by Mark Wahlberg’s production company, Unrealistic Ideas, and is waiting for release.
I’m honored to have scored the hit feature documentary, Queen Mimi, from Director Yaniv Rokah and Executive Producer Michael Shamberg (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained).
I studied music and orchestration with Shirish Korde and Osvaldo Golijov at the College of the Holy Cross where I was awarded the Beethoven Prize for best original composition. I continued on to get my MFA at the Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU and studied small ensemble composition with Conrad Cummings at The Juilliard School. I also attended Hollywood orchestrator Scott Smalley’s Advanced Orchestration Course: “The Art and Craft of Orchestration for Film & TV.”
I’m a proud member of ASCAP, The Dramatists Guild, the SCL, the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) and sit on the board of the New York Chapter of the Ravel Study Group.
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A few points of focus…
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Put Yourself Out There
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Some of my music
I’ve had a very diverse and rewarding composing career, which includes writing 3 full length musicals, orchestrating songs for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, writing a brass fanfare for the West Point Band, writing music for numerous commercials, the score to a Children’s Defense Fund tribute to Hillary Clinton, as well as scoring numerous films, licensing my music over 6,500 times and writing cues for dozens of popular TV shows.
These days, when it comes to writing music, I’m focusing on my musical theatre composing career first and foremost while making time to work on projects that I’m passionate about.
Some fun musical projects
I completed three short musicals for Pixel Playhouse’s YouTube channel. I provided music and orchestrations, book and lyrics are by Julia Gannon and the audio was mixed and mastered by Audio Verite’s Shawn P. Russell. You can see all three of them below.
RAYA & THE WARRIOR DISNEY PRINCESSES
BABY YODA
ENOLA HOLMES
Featured Podcast
One of the podcasts we edit and publish is “Your New Life Blend” with Shoshanna Hecht. With guests from all walks of life including media, culture, politics, tech, business & activism, Shoshanna examines the overlap of our goals, relationships, boundaries and priorities, and how we can navigate them all with self-awareness and intention. What do we want our lives to look like? Welcome to Your New Life Blend.
Some nice words
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“Ron has taken our business to the next level with a beautiful, impressive website. Right from the start he's been incredibly responsive, knowledgeable, and talented at visual design, coding, and marketing input. Our redesign was completed under budget and ahead of schedule, and the follow-up care has been exemplary, not only adding new features but routine maintenance and catching issues before they arise. I attribute much of our small business' growth to our new website, and have received numerous compliments from clients on it's looks and ease of use. I can and do recommend Ron to anyone looking for awesome web design at an affordable price with great service.”
Daniel Abrahamson, StreamStage.live
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“Ron Passaro is the most talented composer that I have ever worked with. Over the past 5 years he has improved many of my shows, films and commercial spots in an amazing way. He is a polite, hands on composer with a great personality, that time and time again has delivered incredible music in a timely fashion. His attention to detail is tremendous. My great regret is that I cannot hire him full time just to sit in my office and create music for our company.”
Craig Shapiro, Cedar Street Films
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“I work in three continents with a variety of professionals, and Ron Passaro is without a doubt, the best in his field. He does not merely understand the technical aspects of web-designing, which he is fantastic at. During our work together (and afterwards), Passaro showed several qualities that I value immensely. Strategic thinking, bringing fabulous suggestions to make my website be easier to navigate and more useful to my clients. His turnaround was extremely fast. He is a generous, easy person to deal with, and his communication is fast and efficient. I couldn't recommend him more!”
Liza Andrews, Multilingual Presentation Coach
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“I've worked with Ron on more than one occasion as well as suggested him to colleagues who have also been thrilled with the results. He's a top notch composer and orchestrator with a huge range of styles at his disposal. His work is current and professional and he's easy to work with.”
Daniel Ingram, 5-time Emmy Nominated Songwriter
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