Christopher Reutinger (born September 10, 1946 in San Diego, California) is an American musician, composer, arranger, author and teacher. He is a violinist.

Reutinger began to study music composition at the age of seven with his English mother Joan Reutinger, 5th cousin of Lady Diana Spencer and a famous Berkeley and San Diego concert pianist. At the age of nine, he began to study violin, and by the age of 12 his compositions were being performed by the San Diego Symphony. In 1957 the San Diego Symphony performed his original composition: "18th Century", and the following year, in 1958, the San Diego Symphony orchestra debuted his original composition "Gigue". His senior year at Point Loma High School, he was selected to be the Concertmaster of the San Diego All City's High School Orchestra in 1964.

Reutinger won a full scholarship to San Francisco State University to be part of the school's flagship music ensemble The Morrison Quartet. The quartet appeared on San Francisco local KPIX CBS every Sunday in the show: "Molnar on Music" hosted by the renowned violist Frenrick Molnar. He also studied with Naoum Blinder pupil and San Francisco Symphony Concertmaster Fank Houser. Transferring to the University of California at Berkeley he studied composition with Roger Sessions before graduating in 1970. Because of student unrest at SF State and Berkeley, when his parents wanted him to return home, Chris became the Father of California Street Music in 1969 for survival. He was the first to play classical violin in the streets of San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles before anyone else and was written up in Rolling Stone Magazine as such. During this period he also performed with the Oakland Symphony. As a graduate student at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Reutinger studied violin with renowned violinist Alice Schoenfeld. He was also asked by conductor Daniel Lewis to be part of the elite USC String Orchestra.

Winning an audition to be a first violinist with the Honolulu Symphony in 1972, he spent one season in Hawaii before returning to Los Angeles to begin a career in live performances and studio recordings. To date, he has contributed to over 550 motion pictures scores and over 450 record/CDs. He has recorded and performed with Elton John, Barry Manilow, Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Roy Orbison where he appears as the bearded violinist on the Cinemax TV Special "Black and White Night", Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Beck, Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli, Jewel, and Michael Feinstein, to name a few. Reutinger was a founding member of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri. He has performed with numerous other symphonies. Chris also trained actors for TV and the big screen. He trained British Actor Simon Templeman to fake violin on screen for 4 episodes of "Northern Exposure," and was the on screen finger double. He trained a 5 year old Makenzie Vega (daughter to The Good Wife TV Show) to perform violin on screen for the Nicolas Cage film, "Family Man." In the early 90s he composed 22 "source Tunes," for Warner Brothers TV and Movies. His most used tune: "Vivaldi Gets Lucky," appears on Walker, Texas Ranger, and other movies of the week. His string arrangement for "Silverplated" and his violin/viola performances appear on Granite Records recording artist Geoff Byrd's new CD: "Shrinking Violets". [1] Reutinger recently composed and performed the music to accompany the interpretive dances for the prototype for "Artists for Trauma", a non-profit founded by Laura T.Sharpe of "The Laura Project". To view the video enter Artists For Trauma Project in the google search engine.