Brendan V. Ryan is an orchestral and solo flutist residing in the Boston area. Brendan made his solo Carnegie Hall debut as First Prize winner in the Alexander and Buono International Flute Competition in 2013. In addition to having soloed with ensembles such as the New England String Ensemble, Brendan is an active orchestral flutist and has performed in some of the world’s leading concert halls including Boston’s Symphony Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. He earned the flute fellowship with Boston’s Symphony Nova in 2017, serves as Associate Flutist with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and continues to perform as substitute principal flutist, piccoloist and alto flutist with numerous orchestras in the New England area including the Cape Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Brendan is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree and the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Master of Music degree. Brendan was distinguished by USC President, C. L. Max Nikias, as a Discovery Scholar and afforded a Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award for academic excellence and outreach music service to the south-central Los Angeles Community in 2012. As a co-founder of a flute quartet, Flutes of Troy, in 2011, Brendan received First Prize in the USC Outreach Chamber Music Competition and was sponsored by the university to give over a dozen performances and informative lectures to grade schools in and around the greater-Los Angeles region. As a solo flutist, Brendan was finalist in numerous Southern California competitions including the Carmel Music Society Competition and the Pasadena Showcase House Instrumental Competition. In the summers, Brendan has been selected as a fellow at Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and has also been selected to perform at the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Lake George Music Festival and the Brevard Music Festival. In 2017, Brendan was invited to study with Robert Langevin, Principal Flutist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and world-renowned French flutist, Julien Beaudiment, at the Orford Music Festival in Canada. Brendan has also performed in Saas-Fee, Switzerland at the Talis Chamber Music Festival in 2016.
Sought after as a teacher and music educator, Brendan gave a performance and masterclass to the flute studio of Middle Tennessee State University in 2015, was Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Flute Academy in 2014–2015 and is a woodwinds sectional and chamber music coach at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He is currently on the faculties of All Newton Music School and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
Brendan is indebted to the extraordinary teachers with whom he has studied, including Jeanne Baxtresser, Jim Walker, Marianne Gedigian and Judy Grant.
Brendan V. Ryan is an orchestral and solo flutist residing in the Boston area. Brendan made his solo Carnegie Hall debut as First Prize winner in the Alexander and Buono International Flute Competition in 2013. In addition to having soloed with ensembles such as the New England String Ensemble, Brendan is an active orchestral flutist and has performed in some of the world’s leading concert halls including Boston’s Symphony Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. He earned the flute fellowship with Boston’s Symphony Nova in 2017, serves as Associate Flutist with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and continues to perform as substitute principal flutist, piccoloist and alto flutist with numerous orchestras in the New England area including the Cape Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Brendan is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree and the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Master of Music degree. Brendan was distinguished by USC President, C. L. Max Nikias, as a Discovery Scholar and afforded a Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award for academic excellence and outreach music service to the south-central Los Angeles Community in 2012. As a co-founder of a flute quartet, Flutes of Troy, in 2011, Brendan received First Prize in the USC Outreach Chamber Music Competition and was sponsored by the university to give over a dozen performances and informative lectures to grade schools in and around the greater-Los Angeles region. As a solo flutist, Brendan was finalist in numerous Southern California competitions including the Carmel Music Society Competition and the Pasadena Showcase House Instrumental Competition. In the summers, Brendan has been selected as a fellow at Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and has also been selected to perform at the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Lake George Music Festival and the Brevard Music Festival. In 2017, Brendan was invited to study with Robert Langevin, Principal Flutist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and world-renowned French flutist, Julien Beaudiment, at the Orford Music Festival in Canada. Brendan has also performed in Saas-Fee, Switzerland at the Talis Chamber Music Festival in 2016.
Sought after as a teacher and music educator, Brendan gave a performance and masterclass to the flute studio of Middle Tennessee State University in 2015, was Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Flute Academy in 2014–2015 and is a woodwinds sectional and chamber music coach at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He is currently on the faculties of All Newton Music School and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
Brendan is indebted to the extraordinary teachers with whom he has studied, including Jeanne Baxtresser, Jim Walker, Marianne Gedigian and Judy Grant.