Christopher Rinaman

Chris Rinaman is a composer, arranger and trombonist in New York City who studied at the Manhattan School of Music and whose experience encompasses jazz and orchestral performing and arranging to composing for film. A former assistant to Academy Award-winning film composer Howard Shore, Chris Rinaman has scored independent films and has penned numerous arrangements for big bands and orchestras with vocalists such as Deana Martin, Giada Valenti, and Allan Harris, as well as had his arrangements featured on PBS concert specials. As a busy freelance trombonist, his performance experience ranges from jazz and rock concerts and recordings to Broadway pit orchestras, including the first national tours of the Broadway shows In The Heights and Memphis.