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Ryan Streber is a composer and audio engineer based in New York City whose works have been performed in the United States and abroad by artists and ensembles such as The American Composers Orchestra, The Lucerne Percussion Group, The Juilliard Orchestra, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Flexible Music, Line C3 Percussion Quartet, ACME, Gemini Youth Orchestra, Fountain Chamber Ensemble, Nadia Sirota, Samuel Solomon, and many others. His most recent orchestral work, Arcuare, was read by The ACO in its 2007 Underwood New Music Readings. Other recent works include new solo pieces for guitarist Daniel Lippel, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and cellist Sumire Kudo, as well as ensemble compositions for Counter)Induction, the Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble, and Bacchae Fragments for 12 percussionists which was commissioned by the Lucerne Festival Academy and premiered under the direction of Michel Cerutti in 2006 in Lucerne.
Besides concert music, Ryan has composed two short film scores which have been screened at various festivals in the US, South America, and Europe, as well as an original score of continuous incidental music for a staging of Euripides' Bacchae at Columbia University. He has also designed sound for over a dozen theatrical productions in and around New York and collaborated with other artists in multi-media performances, recordings ranging from pop to experimental, and digital animations. Ryan currently works as the coordinator for Juilliard's composition department, and has taught composition in the school's Evening Division.
As an audio engineer, Ryan has worked with such artists as ICE, Flexible Music, guitarist Daniel Lippel, Metropolis Ensemble, composer Samuel Adler, composer Jason Eckardt, ACME, soprano Jessye Norman and composer Laura Karpman, Yesaroun' Duo, Tetras String Quartet, Fountain Chamber Ensemble, New Paths in New Music, the Moving Theater, and many others. Recordings engineered by Ryan have been released on New Focus, Naxos, Neuma, and Arabesque. He interned at Mercenary Audio in Boston and DigIt Post-Production in NYC and currently works as a freelance location recordist in and around NYC.
Ryan received his BMA with Distinction and MMA from The Juilliard School, studying composition with Christopher Rouse and Milton Babbitt. He has been awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould award and Juilliard's Palmer Dixon prize.
Born in 1979 in Rochester, NY, Ryan currently resides in Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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