Ryan chase biography

Short Bio

Described as “the stuff of memory” (The Herald-Times) and “whirlwind… deftly explored contrasts of mood, from bombastic to introverted.” (The New York Times), Ryan’s music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Chelsea Symphony, Collage New Music, Contemporaneous, FLUX Quartet, the Society for New Music, and the Texas State University Wind Symphony.

He studied with Keith Fitch at the Mannes College of Music and with Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Don Freund, and Gabriela Ortiz at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Colgate University.

Long Bio

Music by Ryan Chase (b. 1987) has been described as "the stuff of memory" and “whirlwind… deftly explored contrasts of mood, from bombastic to introverted.” (The New York Times), Ryan’s music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orche