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Ryan with Dr. Charles Argersinger ![]()
Biography
Ryan Jesperson (1981) is a composer whose music is steeped in the modern practice of blurring genres and skewing expectations. With a taste for eccentric rhythms and dissonant chord progressions, Ryan’s music alludes to his jazz and rock roots while still firmly ensconced in the modern classical tradition. In 2011 Ryan completed a Doctorate in Music Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow, President of the Composer’s GUILD, and student senator. Ryan also holds an MM and an AD from the University of Hartford, and a BM and BA from Washington State University. His principal compositions teachers included Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Larry Alan Smith, Robert Carl, Stephen Gryc, Charles Argersinger and Gregory Yasinitsky.
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Upcoming Performances
Fall, 2012: Joseph Abad will premiere a new Saxophone Sonata. Fall, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT. Spring-Summer, 2012: Jeux pour Jumeaux will be performed in San Francisco, CA. Spring, 2012: Bobby Watson and the UMKC Big Band will premiere Rhapsody for Dean Moriarty in Kansas City, MO. Spring, 2012: Ashly Evans will premiere Birdsongs in Houston, TX. Spring, 2012: BA(da)SS will be performed by Ryan Ford in West Hartford, CT. Spring, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT. Spring, 2012: Not Death, but Love will be premiered by Ineo Saxophone Quartet. Spring, 2012: David Tayloe will perform A Page Out of Zen in CT. May, 2012: The Invisible, Magic, Soccer Phone will be premiered in Middlefield, CT. April, 2012: The UMKC Opera Dept. will perform portions of Songs from Behind the Curtain. April, 2012: David Tayloe will premiere A Page Out of Zen in NY. Feb. 17th, 2012: The 016 Ensemble will be perform Romanza for Alto Saxophone and Violin in Manchester, CT. Dec. 3rd, 2011: Ryan defends his dessertation, Songs from Behind the Curtain at UMKC. July 17th, 21st, 24th, 2011: Music Faculty from the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will perform ...and those seven dwarfs in a series of concerts in Western Maine. June 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 2011:Orphée Redux will be performed by Rhymes With Opera on their East Coast Tour (NYC, Baltimore, Hartford, Boston). June 12th, 2011:Selection from Songs from Behind the Curtain will be performed at the John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, VA. May 13th, 2011: The Ineo Quartet will perform the 1st movement of Not Death, but Love on their Fischoff Competition program in South Bend, Indiana. March 19th, 2011: The Ineo Saxophone Quartet will perform ...and love is fire... from Not Death, but Love at the NASA conference in West Point, NY. Feb. 25th, 2011: I. Jest will be premiered by Robert Olson and the UMKC Orchestra in Kansas City, MO. Feb. 14th, 2011: Hebdomas Squatinae will be performed at the Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival. | ||||
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