Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano and festival co-director
American pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough has developed a diverse career as soloist and collaborator, comfortable with music ranging from standard repertoire to electroacoustic improvisation. He has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sarasota Festival Orchestra, Colburn Conservatory Orchestra, Orange County Wind Symphony, and World Festival Orchestra, working with such conductors as Fabien Gabel, Gisele Ben-Dur, Leonid Grin, Larry Rachleff, Mischa Santora, Joshua Weilerstein, and Christoph Eschenbach. He has performed alongside the Mark Morris Dance Group, contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird, and at festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center, Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Festival, Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, and Nohant International Chopin Festival.
In the 2013–2014 season, orchestral engagements included McCullough’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut playing Ravel’s Concerto in G, Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Eureka Symphony Orchestra, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Candelabra III with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, and Tania Leon’s Kabiosile with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. McCullough also performed a two-piano concert with Canadian pianist Claudia Chan as part of the Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival, curated this season by John Adams, featuring Adams’s Hallelujah Junction and the north American premiere of Hans Thomalla’s Noema. In the 2014–2015 season, McCullough will be again featured as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, performing George Benjamin’s Duet for piano and orchestra with George Benjamin conducting.
McCullough has worked closely with composers George Benjamin, John Harbison, James Primosch, Andrew McPherson, and Dante De Silva and has commissioned or been dedicatee of many new works. In 2008, he released a CD of solo piano music by twentieth century Polish-French composer Miłosz Magin on the Polish label Acte Prealable, and in January of 2013 was featured on an Innova Records release of composer Andrew McPherson’s Secrets of Antikythera for magnetic resonator piano.
McCullough has studied primarily with Deborah Clasquin, David Louie, and John Perry while also learning from Stephen Drury, Leon Fleisher, and Peter Serkin. McCullough is currently Sage Fellow in Keyboard Studies at Cornell University where he works with Xak Bjerken.
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Mr. McCullough will perform works by Keating and Tremblay on the Friday, March 6, chair a panel discussion on the Saturday, March 7, and perform part of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux later that afternoon.
In the 2013–2014 season, orchestral engagements included McCullough’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut playing Ravel’s Concerto in G, Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Eureka Symphony Orchestra, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Candelabra III with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, and Tania Leon’s Kabiosile with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. McCullough also performed a two-piano concert with Canadian pianist Claudia Chan as part of the Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival, curated this season by John Adams, featuring Adams’s Hallelujah Junction and the north American premiere of Hans Thomalla’s Noema. In the 2014–2015 season, McCullough will be again featured as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, performing George Benjamin’s Duet for piano and orchestra with George Benjamin conducting.
McCullough has worked closely with composers George Benjamin, John Harbison, James Primosch, Andrew McPherson, and Dante De Silva and has commissioned or been dedicatee of many new works. In 2008, he released a CD of solo piano music by twentieth century Polish-French composer Miłosz Magin on the Polish label Acte Prealable, and in January of 2013 was featured on an Innova Records release of composer Andrew McPherson’s Secrets of Antikythera for magnetic resonator piano.
McCullough has studied primarily with Deborah Clasquin, David Louie, and John Perry while also learning from Stephen Drury, Leon Fleisher, and Peter Serkin. McCullough is currently Sage Fellow in Keyboard Studies at Cornell University where he works with Xak Bjerken.
For more information, visit rmmpiano.com.
Mr. McCullough will perform works by Keating and Tremblay on the Friday, March 6, chair a panel discussion on the Saturday, March 7, and perform part of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux later that afternoon.
