Claudio Ragazzi

Grammy- and Emmy-winning film composer and guitarist Claudio Ragazzi has written award-winning music for film and television, scoring dozens of projects, and has performed with some of today's most respected musicians at renowned concert halls around the world. While attending Berklee College of Music, where he graduated magna cum laude, Ragazzi won a Duke Ellington Masters Award and Boston Music Award. He went on to compose music for feature films, documentaries, television commercials, and commissioned works for plays and ballets.

His selected film scoring credits include Next Stop Wonderland, The Blue Diner, John Sayles's Casa de los Babys (in collaboration with Mason Daring), and Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro (in collaboration with Osvaldo Golijov). Ragazzi's music can also be heard in Something's Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Keanu Reeves. He has scored dozens of award-winning documentaries and TV productions for Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Telemundo, Univision, and PBS (American Experience, NOVA, Sesame Street, Arthur, and Postcards from Buster). He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Blue Note Jazz Club (New York City and Tokyo), Lincoln Center, and in theaters around the world, and played with Gary Burton, Yo-Yo Ma, Regina Carter, Randy Brecker, Danilo Pérez, Joe Lovano, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, and Paquito D'Rivera, to name just a few.

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ragazzi grew up playing music at young age, performing with some of the country's most influential musicians. He is an active film composer, performer, and educator who teaches film composition at Berklee College of Music.