Based in Harper Woods, Michigan, Kerry Russo has been a sought-after oboist and English horn player for over four decades. His classical training and his passion are echoed and revealed as he creates meaningful, beautiful, and colorful sounds. His compositions range from haunting to quirky, but they are unfailingly affecting and evocative. We are delighted to feature Kerry’s unique and improvisational style of dramatic music for our clients and their diverse media projects.
This stately, good-natured adagio is dense with the sound of oboes. Could be used for opening or closing credits for a period drama, or for a slow court dance scene in a romantic adventure. Instrumental, Classical, Baroque
The poignant sound of the oboe reveals the intensely reverent beauty of this Bach aria. Could be used for a pensive interlude in film or TV drama. Closing credits on thoughtful drama or tragic love story. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Johann Sebastian Bach
No-one can make a single line of music speak so eloquently as Bach, and the English horn brings a plaintive beauty to it. Could be under closing credits after a particularly poignant film. Instrumental, Classical, Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach
This spare dialogue between drums and oboe is a sort of strange dance in the wilderness, or depicting an ultra groovy 50's night club scene. Could underscore opening credits for a hip and off-beat culture flick. Instrumental, Dramatic, Eclectic
This track might evoke the simultaneous drudgery and stress of working the assembly line, with one oboe dutifully plugging away, while the other tries unsuccessfully to sing or comment on the situation. Could be heard under opening credits for a thriller or espionage flick. Instrumental, Dramatic, Playful Curious
This slow. beautiful somewhat hypnotic piece has the oboe searching and commenting over the poignantly shifting chords beneath. Could depict a landscape of ancient voyaging, looking for peace or calm or love. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
This slow, deliberate oboe song of descent into isolation is relieved only by its ultimate beauty. Spare sound of the strings and the barely beating drum are the only thread to any remaining hope. Could underscore a scene of thoughtful and fateful remembering. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
The English horn searches for the horizon, lost at sea in the middle of a starless night. The slow elegiac melodic line is restless yet on the verge of hopelessness. One final solo call into the night ends the piece. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
The synth texture marches steadily on while the oboe tries to maintain their spirits in a lonely journey of the stragglers. Could be under a scene depicting the slow slog home post trauma. Instrumental, Dramatic, Playful Curious
This quirky, slyly dark, weird and doomed wedding party does not bode well for the couple's future, unless this is how aliens party down. Could underscore a lunatic dance scene. Instrumental, Dramatic, Eclectic
This simple, calm and peaceful piano line is at first interrupted by an awakening oboe that eventually settles into the morning's inviting atmosphere. Could underscore a contemplative and serene moment in a romantic scene. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
This gentle dance of intertwining oboe lines has an easy approachable flowing melody. Could be good for as interlude between segments on a radio program or to introduce a scene of a baroque era European town. Instrumental, Classical, Baroque
The exotic and languid song of the oboe wafts through the desert night. There is a quiet tension signifying a hidden but potential danger. It sings of a calmness that is troubled by mystery. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Hypnotic
This slow and beautiful unwinding of the English horn has a peaceful and calm unhurried progression, like sailing on a waveless sea in the moonlight. Could underscore any scene of romantic meditation. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
The English horns provide points of light and shadow along a walk in a dark city that is intimate with the ocean front. Slow, beautiful, dark, moments of conflict and resolution. Could be under a scene that follows our protagonist through a dark and rain damp town. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
The mature singing voice of this song and the more antiquated poetry of the lyrics denote the bittersweet memories of lost love and the longing for rain to come, for it was raining when the first spark of love was felt long ago. The English horn adds poignancy. Could be closing credits. Male Vocals, Singer/Songwriter, New Acoustic
The piano and the English horn are intimate friends discussing the vicissitudes of the day on a lazy summer afternoon. With a slow and halting tempo. Could be introductory music approaching the scene. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
This slow pensive and spare moment in time where at first one oboe repeats a quiet thought and the other responds with a minimal inconsequential comment until both meet up by the end to look at the same picture. Close up scene on a main character as he/she considers options in a problematic world. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
This well-recognized beautiful melodic line lends itself to the poignancy of the oboe. Could be good for closing credits to a bittersweet romantic film. Instrumental, Classical, Romantic, Sergei Rachmaninoff
The English horn and the piano have a slow, calm conversation about life, beauty, loss, mystery, the future. Could be under the closing credits for a thoughtful small film or to show the sad acceptance of the protagonist's station. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
This is the famous English horn solo from William Tell's Overture, stripped down to unaccompanied English horn. A bucolic scene, the countryside, a Swiss mountain village, portrayal of a sunny spring morning promising good things. Instrumental, Classical, Romantic, Gioacchino Rossini
This traditional old English tune of yearning and young love thwarted is expressed with the poignant sound of the unaccompanied English horn. Could be used in an opening scene in film or TV drama. Instrumental, Folk, British Folk
Portraying this deceptively simple but exceptionally beautiful Schubert song with unaccompanied oboe lends it a poignance, sparseness and lonely reflection that would lend itself well to a scene of quiet thoughtfulness where a life-changing decision is being made. Instrumental, Classical, Classical, Franz Schubert
The slightly harried oboe sings its plaint against a not always sympathetic syncopated pattern in the piano. Could be under an opening credits or scene as a lonely protagonist walks along a damp embankment on a cloudy day. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
A mostly calm walk along an evening path, the 2 English horns have a conversation with only brief moments of dissonance then come together at the end with a hopeful harmony. Good for a thoughtful interlude in a film where the protagonists thoughts go from dark to light. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
Opening with simple consonant themes, navigating a few dissonant tight spots, but ultimately emerging into a sweet ending, this could underscore scenes of new love or sentimental long-term attachment. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
In this track, the oboe comments on sights along the trek on a slowly flowing river of the synthesized strings below. Has some tender moments and some dark thoughts too. Could underscore a scene of first envisioning the beautiful sweeping landscape the protagonist is entering. Instrumental, Dramatic, Tender music
The English horn floats untethered in space for this atmospheric piece that could underscore a quiet scene of traveling through outer space, with occasionally close encounters with space junk. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
The English horn resignedly wanders along the waves provided by the synthesizer, with near clashing moments of dissonance. Picture an opening scene of a space adventure with the lone untethered traveller. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
This slow and lonely cruise evokes the night in the middle of the ocean with the longing phrases of the oboe over the gentle interjections of the piano while the accompaniment shifts like calm ocean currents and the reminders of the workings in the bowels of the ship that moves them along. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
This somewhat recalls a typical celtic repeating rhythm over droning bass strings, but it's not an entirely happy dance, with dark undertones and occasional dissonance. Could be the opening music for a British mystery or dark drama. Instrumental, Dramatic, Playful Curious
This slow, relaxed and calm piece lowers your blood pressure, no conflict, just easy relations between English horn and piano. Could be good cue for mature love that has managed to remain strong through the years. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
This slow, dark dream sequence has the English horn wandering through the mist and occasionally trying to shine some light. Could be used for film or TV dark drama, tension, intrigue, espionage. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
Think maybe Santa's elves tinkering away at the toy making when one of them discovers Santa's stash of whiskey. Or the wind-up toy winding down here and there. Instrumental, Dramatic, Playful Curious
This beautiful romantic well-known tune is given a tender dramatic poignancy by the sound of the solo oboe. Could be used in an opening scene in film or TV drama. Dark, lonely scene of empty ballet theatre. Instrumental, Dramatic, Romantic Music, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Just going to quote a musician friend about this track: This is a love scene, romanic and sexy, dark melted chocolate, gorgeous tensions and releases, at moments Mahler-esque. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
The mournful beauty of the oboe is the last living thing on Mars, longing for the time when life thrived, along with friendship, community and love, all gone. The sound of the winds the only thing remaining in the end. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
The oboe portrays the sadness and loneliness of being the last living member of a species. Calm, with bird-like calls, there is a sense of resignation and loss while displaying the beauty that will soon disappear from the Earth. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
This slow and plodding conversation between oboe and synth has a dark and mysterious edge with no real conclusions met. Could be an underscore for an apprehensive walk through uncertain woods. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
This slow somewhat eerie deliberate march moves along as if the marchers are not sure whether their marching to salvation or doom. Could underscore a dark dramatic scene or opening for a mystery. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
The oboe wails in defeat as it is forced to descend by the insistent foreboding brass chords. Could underscore a scene of aftermath of disaster or intense psychological suffering, or of tragic realization. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
The English horn wanders through a foggy dark landscape trying to find a place to rest until dawn. Could underscore an opening scene in a thriller, drama, poetic and atmospheric film. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
With echoes of Mahler and Vaughn Williams, this wandering moonlit sometimes dissonant walk along the river could be the backdrop for lovers taking a stroll in the night, maybe closing credits for a bittersweet nostalgic romance. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
The oboe sings a lonely lament over the droning background, sparse and questioning, would work to underscore a scene of lost love or intimate contemplation on the face of the protagonist as he wonders where he went wrong. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
This slow, melancholic waltz conjures the memory of lost love, the dimly lit ballroom showing signs of decline. Good for a scene in romantic drama or for closing credits in sad love story. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
This gloomy march might accompany exhausted Roman soldiers heading wearily back to Rome from their battles far afield. The English horn lends the haunting but appreciative retreat. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Hypnotic
Full of questions and punctuations this slow deliberative track could accompany a scene depicting a moment of psychological intrigue or the machinations of espionage. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
The piano tries to control the hyperactive impulses of the oboe in this crazy little duet. Could underscore a montage of memories from a difficult relationship. Instrumental, Dramatic, Playful Curious
