Ruth Mendelson
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-8484
For media inquiries, please contact Media Relations
Career Highlights
- Award-winning composer, producer, arranger, and/or music director for theatrical film, documentary and television productions on HBO, Discovery, Disney, Animal Planet, the Smithsonian, PBS, ABC, NBC, and others
- Producer of podcasts and audio books featuring elaborate soundscapes, most recently Jane Goodall's updated classic, My Life with the Chimpanzees (premier release: fall 2017)
- Location sound engineer for U.S. and international documentaries, most recently in spring 2017 when recording location sound on the high plains of Mongolia for the documentary film series Mongolian Chronicles; will also score the series in spring 2018
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Member of One Human Family (OHF) international gospel choir and has been on several tours in Europe, India, and Brazil; OHF performed at the United Nations opening ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland
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Featured multi-instrumentalist on a variety of recordings produced in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, as well as in Europe and India
- Founder (in partnership with Jane Goodall) of Eagle Vision Initiatives, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the community via the arts
- Keynote speaker, author, and humanitarian
- Instruments include piano, keyboard, bass, drums, guitar, and flute
Awards
- Emmy nominee
- American Documentary Showcase award winner
- New York Times Critic's Pick: Film Composer
The following awards were won more than once:
- Cine Award
- Telly
- CINDY, Cinema in Industry
- Golden Eagle
- Hugo
- ITVA Golden Slate Award
- Time Inc. Health FREDDIE Award
- NHIA, National Health Information Award
- NCFR, National Council on Family Relations, first place
- Parent’s Guide Award
- Will Solimene Award of Excellence
- HeSCA, Health Sciences Communications Association
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