Rodney Whittenberg

Rodney Whittenberg is an Emmy Award winning composer and an Emmy nominated film producer. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, sound designer, music producer, writer, podcast producer, film director, editor, producer, and educator.

Rodney is the founder of Melodyvision, a full-service media production company that serves as a platform for him to bring fresh perspectives to each client and project while adding value that results in creative solutions for often complex problems. Rodney has produced and directed the award-winning documentary Voices of Ages and produced and co-directed the Emmy nominated Portraits of Professional Caregivers – their Passion, their Pain, and the award-winning documentary Angels and Saints – Eros and Awe. He has co-directed more than two dozen short, experimental documentaries, many of which have won numerous film festivals. He has also worked as a freelance segment producer for HBO, WYBE, and WHYY.

As a film composer, Rodney has written music for over thirty-four films and TV shows, as well as countless dance performances. His projects include: Code Name: Ayalon, Anthony Bourdain’s A Cooks Tour, PBS’s POV Documentary The Camden 28, The Spanish American War (co-written with Time for Three) for the History Channel, and horror film classics Infested and Return to Sleepaway Camp.

He’s received a regional Emmy for his musical score for the TV Documentary Mother Dot’s Philadelphia and a Best Sound Design award at the Terror Film Festival for the movie Tolltaker. He also directed the orchestral film shoots for Beethoven to Beijing, which was nominated for the Library of Congress’ Ken Burns Prize.

Rodney has taught music and audio production courses at Lincoln University, University of the Arts, Drexel University, and Philadelphia Community College, as well as graduate level film courses at Rosemont College and an audio production course for animation at Jefferson University. He has been a guest lecturer at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Franklin and Marshall College, and has co-written curriculum for the Southeast Delco School District.

Rodney has also had the pleasure to have interviewed Terrence Blanchard, John Lewis, Andrew Young, legendary bassist Ron Carter, avant-garde composer George Crumb, jazz piano icon Ramsey Lewis, and swing guitarist John Pizzarelli.

As an audio engineer and record producer he has worked with artist as varied as Time for Three, Bobby McFerrin, the Philadelphia Orchestra Percussion Ensemble, and The DePue Brothers Band.