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Strings arranged by Ryder McNair
Sound design by Ryder McNair
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Ryder McNair is a versatile and collaborative film composer and musician. He has scored numerous feature and short films that have screened at international film festivals including South By Southwest, Tribeca, Slamdance, Seattle, Santa Barbara and Mill Valley. In the past few years he has written music for The Meg 2, Retribution, Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, HBO’s period drama The Gilded Age, the Netflix SpaceX documentary Return To Space, Disney Nature’s Polar Bear and more.
Ryder grew up in Toronto, Canada. A multi-instrumentalist, studying piano since he was five and learning guitar when he was a teenager, Ryder received his BA in film scoring from Berklee College of Music and a Music Masters at USC Thornton’s Screen Scoring Program in 2018. Shortly after graduating he was hired by Harry Gregson-Williams to take over for his long-time assistant at Wavecrest Studios. Ryder’s first work there was overseeing technical operations while scoring Mulan, and following that he transitioned into composing full-time and running the studio.
Ryder lives in Los Angeles with his wife, filmmaker/director Heather Jack, their daughter, and two gray cats.