Ryan Homsey
Composer
| Years at Source: | 2021 |
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| Biography: | Ryan Homsey is a versatile American composer, equally at home writing for chamber and choral ensembles, theater, and dance. His music has been performed in the US, Italy, Portugal, France, and the Philippines across a wide range of new music venues from concert halls, churches, and theaters to warehouses, clubs, and galleries. Ryan’s compositions juxtapose tradition and innovation. His training in classical and popular music draws additional inspiration from his past experience as a professional ballet dancer. His works have been performed by JACK Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s Music to You String Quartet, Quiet City, Ensemble Mise-en, Boston New Music Initiative, violinist Adrianna Mateo, and baritone Kelvin Chan, among others. Commissions and awards have come from the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, NY Children’s Aid Chorus, New Haven Oratorio Choir, and Skidmore College’s Dance Department. Recent performance venues include the Taipei Cultural Center in New York City, the Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ryan Homsey’s music has been featured in new music festivals and concerts by Circles and Lines, Music With A View, the Westchester Square Arts Festival, Catholic University of America’s New Voices @ CUA in Washington, D.C., and Ensemble Mise-en’s music festival at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York City. Other recent performance venues include the Purchase College Performing Arts Center, the Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work as a composer/sound designer has been heard in theater productions at HERE Arts, Metropolitan Playhouse, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Deconstructive Theatre Project, Emerging Artists Theatre, BoCoCa Arts Festival, and Vaudeville Park. As a recipient of American Composers Forum’s Live Music for Dance grant, Ryan composed a multi-movement work entitled Recurrent Stages for The Minnesota Ballet. The short film documenting this critically acclaimed collaboration was nominated for an Upper Midwest Emmy® Award. Ryan also enjoyed a seven-year professional dance career in ballet that includes the Minnesota Ballet, American National Ballet, and Lexington Ballet Company. As a singer, musician, and music director, he has participated in numerous musical theater projects, including an International Tour of productions with Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Really Useful Group. Ryan is Lecturer in the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase. Ryan has studied with Justin Dello Joio, Julia Wolfe, Alice Parker, and Allyson Bellink. His music is published by Water Willow Music and GIA Publications. |
| Website: | www.ryanhomsey.com |