Profile
Profile
Rich Ruttenberg has studied piano since the age of 7, starting with classical repertoire and moving to jazz studies in high school and college. After several years playing jazz clubs in Chicago, he moved out to Los Angeles, shortly thereafter beginning a 30-year career playing piano and electronic keyboards. He has performed with artists as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Marvin Hamlisch, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, Jeff Beck, Seth MacFarlane, and Catherine Zeta-Jones; played thousands of recording sessions for shows such as The Simpsons, the Star Trek series, The Family Guy, American Dad, JAG, Wings, Moonlighting, Murphy Brown, and Murder She Wrote; and performs live regularly on the Oscars and the Emmy awards.
In the world of film music, he has had the pleasure of working with such composers as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, Mark Isham, Elmer Bernstein, Mychael Danna, James Horner, David Newman, Danny Elfman, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard, and Marc Shaiman on hundreds of movies as varied as A Beautiful Mind, Anchorman, Toy Story 2, The Royal Tenenbaums, City Slickers, Minority Report, Antwone Fisher, Breach, Bobby, Eight Below, Catch Me If You Can, Seabiscuit, What Women Want, Darkman, A River Runs Through It, The Pursuit of Happyness, Lars And The Real Girl, and most significantly, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
TV CREDITS
75th, 77th, 78th, 80th and 87th Annual Academy Awards
Alf
Any Day Now
Coach
The Critic
Frasier
In The Heat of the Night
JAG
Moonlighting
Murder, She Wrote
Murphy Brown
Simon and Simon
The Simpsons
Star Trek:
The Next Generation
Deep Space Nine
Voyager
Enterprise
Wings
TOURING
Barbra Streisand tours, 2016-2018
Michael Feinstein, San Francisco, Niko Hotel, 2019
Andrea Bocelli, West Coast Tours, 2013-2019
FILM CREDITS
A Beautiful Mind
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Addams Family
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Alien 4: Resurrection
Anchorman
Antwone Fisher
At First Sight
Bandits
The Big Kahuna
Blast From The Past
Bloodhead
Bowfinger
Breakfast Of Champions
Catch Me If You Can
Cheaper by the Dozen
Citizen Cohn
City Slickers
Cold Creek Manor
The Cooler
Congo
The Core
Darkman
Dark Money
Dead Again
Dickie Roberts
The Dilemma Of Desire
Don't Say A Word
Down With Love
Dracula: Dead And Loving It
Dumb and Dumberer
The Emperor's Club
Envy
Fire In The Sky
First Wive¹s Club
Flannery
Flubber
Fly Away Home
French Kiss
Gotti
Half Baked
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Hardball
Home For The Holidays
Home on the Range
Honeymoon In Vegas
Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunting Ground
Just Married
Kiss The Girls
Life As A House
Lilo and Stitch
Love, Gilda
Made In America
The Majestic
Major League
Meet The Parents
Men of Honor
Michael
Minority Report
Miracle
The Moderns
Moonlight Mile
Mother
Mr. Destiny
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Winterbourne
Nell
The Net
Nick Of Time
Notorious RBG Nowhere To Run
Of Mice And Men
One True Thing
The Patriot
The Postman
Reindeer Games
Relic
A River Runs Through It
Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Rosewood
Rounders
The Royal Tenenbaums
Santa Clause 2
Save The Last Dance
Scooby-Doo
Seabiscuit
Simple Twist Of Fate
Small Soldiers
Spartan
Species
Star Trek: First Contact
Stuart Little
Stuart Little 2
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Three Kings
Treasure Planet
Toy Story 2
Twisted
U-571
Van Helsing
Welcome to Mooseport
What Lies Beneath
What Women Want
Where The Money Is
The Whole Ten Yards