Turn on the TV anywhere in the world and you’ll probably hear Ron Kristy’s music!  “20/20”, “The Dog Whisperer”, "Access Hollywood", HBO’s “Inside the NFL”, "Dancing with the Stars", "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and Fox Sports all have one thing in common — they feature Ron’s music. You can enjoy Ron’s original music scores on PBS – “Soul of the Senate – The Robert Byrd Story”, the Discovery Channel – “Angel Stories”, “Stories of Miracles” and “Life After Life.”  Ron's music has been featured in 6 episodes of "Dancing With the Stars" in 2012!

He has written and performed commercials for Coca Cola (English and Spanish), Miller Beer, Pepsi, T-Mobile,  AT&T Wireless (website), Bridgestone/Firestone, Clairol, Kentucky Fried Chicken and many more. 

Ron was born in Brooklyn, NY. As a young boy growing up on Long Island, Ron’s major passion was music, and he quickly became proficient at playing various instruments and composing songs by the age of 12. By the age of 19, Ron was writing scores for major TV commercials and recording artists. Signed as staff writer/producer at Warner Chappell in New York, Ron later became a co- founder of Musicastil, the largest music production company in Mexico City. He has been one of Nashville’s and New York's most prolific composers for TV and film for the last 25 years, winning numerous First Place Ad Festival Awards and 2 New York Film Festival Awards. On the personal side, Ron has studied martial arts and meditation, was a death row visitor and taught music for 6 years at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville. An active worker for peace and environmental sustainability in the world, Ron also performs around the country as 1/2 of the duo "Burns and Kristy" at various venues and spiritual retreats of all traditions with his beautiful and talented wife Terry Burns.  When not performing with Terry, Ron continues to compose custom music for various TV/film projects.  He is currently composing a series of 12 Network TV & film music cues.

Ron lives in Ithaca, New York, where he and Terry can usually be found playing and recording music and having a blast with their son Noah Skye, born July 2005.

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All music composed and performed by Ron Kristy, except guitars, played by two extraordinary guitar players, Danny Parks, and Jeff King, both in Nashville TN.  They are awesomely talented musicians, and have been great friends over the years.  Special thanks to Nate Silas Richardson for acoustic guitars on "Beautiful Dayo".  Musicians like these make me sound great! All vocals by Burns and Kristy.

Here are two short excerpts from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital videos that show a totally different side of my scoring - touching piano, strings, warm sustaining pads underscoring the scenes... I love writing all types of music, but this is nearest and dearest to my heart... And working with Donna and the team at Culver Productions http://culverproductions.com/  has been just awesome! They work, many times around great suffering, with open hearts and an incredible ability to capture the essence of what it means to be a human being, both the joy and the sorrow. They are amazing at what they do.  And Craig Culver, http://craigculverpost.com/  is the most gifted editor I have ever had the pleasure of working with - he makes my job so much easier!