RYAN GALLAGHER is in his second year of graduate studies at Cornell University, where his teachers include Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra. He received his Bachelor’s of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 2007, where he studied with Christopher Rouse. A native of Wooster, Ohio, he studied composition with his father, Jack Gallagher of The College of Wooster during high school. Other teachers include Samuel Adler, Richard Cornell, and Stephen Jaffe...
Awards include a 2009 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a First Music commission from the New York Youth Symphony in 2008, four ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Awards (2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007), winner of the 2007 Arthur Friedman Prize for outstanding orchestral composition at Juilliard, winner of the 2006 New York Federation of Music Club’s Brian Israel Prize, winner of the 2003 Natalie and Murray S. Katz Young Composers Competition, and Second Prize in the 2003 Hartt School of Music Young Composer Awards...
Performances of his music include those by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The Juilliard Orchestra, eighth blackbird, New York Youth Symphony, New Juilliard Ensemble, Society for New Music, Metropolis Ensemble, Collage New Music Ensemble, the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland, and the Nevsky String Quartet. He has attended multiple summer music festivals including the Aspen Music School, Freie Universität Berlin International Summer Program, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Norfolk Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College. His recent compositional interests have led him to write pieces mixing standard ensembles with non-classical instruments, including a work for solo drum set and wind ensemble performed by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble with Derek Roddy as soloist, as well as a concerto for electric guitar, bass, synthesizer, and drum set for the Contemporary Youth Orchestra with Electric Kompany as concertante soloists. This summer he will be attending the Composition Master Class Program at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
