Ryan Gallagher

Youth Works Fellow, 2005-06
Wet Ink Fellow, 2006-07

Ryan Gallagher recently graduated from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Christopher Rouse. In the fall of 2007, he will begin work on his DMA at Cornell University with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra. A native of Wooster, Ohio, he studied composition with his father, Jack Gallagher of The College of Wooster. Other teachers include Samuel Adler, Martin Bresnick, George Tsontakis, Richard Cornell, and Stephen Jaffe.

Awards include 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, Society for New Music, Metropolis Ensemble, Collage New Music Ensemble, the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland, and the Nevsky String Quartet. He is currently writing a piece for the New Juilliard Ensemble to be premiered in November 2007.

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