Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University
In addition to putting on concerts, Ryan ryan.olivier@temple.edu. Thank you so much for visiting http://www.myspace.com/olivierryan Please check out these articles written about Ryan's music in the Temple Times and Der Tagespiegel! Continue to check back for updates on upcoming events and concerts. If you would like to be added to Ryan's mailing list in order to receive info about upcoming events and releases in your region (i.e. New York, or the South) please fill out the form below and click submit. Unless you indicate all regions, you will only be contacted if an event is taking place in your region.
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Ryan Olivier is a recent graduate of the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University where he received his Masters of Music under the tutelage of Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, and Richard Brodhead. This Fall he will teaching at Temple University as an adjunct faculty member. He spent last summer studying at the Brevard Music Center with Kevin Puts and Robert Aldridge, where he worked on Brass Quintet which will be premiered this Fall and Bright Wings, a song setting for voice and orchestra, which will be premiered this Spring. Ryan has also studied with Dr. Samuel Adler in Berlin where his piece, Footsteps, a duet for Violin and Viola was premiered at the Neue Synagogue. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in music composition from Loyola University New Orleans where he studied with James Paton Walsh and William Horne. While at Loyola, Ryan was the recipient of the Anthony Valentino Music Composition Award and Loyola University’s Award for Outstanding Composer. His orchestral piece, Dark Harbor, was selected in the Loyola Orchestra Composition Contest to premiere in the Orchestra’s 2007 Spring Concert. His music has been performed by the Momenta Quartet and the Cygnus Ensemble, and his various interests have led him to work with a vast array of media including electronics, video, and dance. Please check out these websites of fellow composers and mentors: Upcoming Performances In My Brain - Thursday October 22nd at Ortliebs Jazz House. In My Brain is a setting of an Emily Dickenson poem for Soprano and Cello and will be performed by Julie Bishop and Jason Calloway as a companion piece to Julia Alford-Fowler's I taste a liqour. The evening will also include a jazz set and an improv set featuring the composers, performers, and the jazz combo. More Updates To Come Soon!
Mission Through varied programs in New Orleans, Ryan has been working on presenting Classical or New Music to a younger, enthusiastic crowd in new and creative ways. Many young music fans do not go to concert halls to listen to music, but rather frequent a local bar or coffee house, where they can enjoy food and drinks, while socializing with their friends. This has become our generation's medium through which we are exposed to live music. Ryan has been trying, with the help of his mentor Dr. James Walsh, to plan programs that would appeal to the current generation of young concertgoers. His recent programs have included, "Ryan Olivier's Composition Cafe," an intimate evening of music in a campus coffee house in which audience members were asked to enjoy soda, coffee, "alternative beverages," and hors d'oeuvres while they listened. The cafe was setup as to allow listeners easy access in and out, so they would be able to enter and leave as they saw fit. He also acted as an assistant to Dr. Walsh's New Orleans’s New Music Ensemble (N.O. N.M.E. pronounced No Enemy), which plays new works for chamber orchestra by local New Orleans’s composers. These concerts are held in the Big Top Gallery in New Orleans. The Big Top is a great venue with amazing new local art covering the walls and a fully stocked bar to boot. Ryan also hosted Music in a Month. A small summer program of local composers and performers in which the composers were asked to write a piece within two weeks time. The music was then handed over to the performers who in turn, only had two weeks to rehearse and practice the music. The concert was held in a campus coffee house, set up in the same arrangement as the Composition Cafe.Ryan hopes to continue to create new programs at local venues in and around the Philadelphia area. If you would like to collaborate on a project or program please contact him at ryan.olivier@temple.edu. |
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String Quartet |
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Performed by the fabulous Momenta String Quartet | |||
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Footsteps: Duet for Violin and Cello |
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Live performance recorded in Rock Hall at Temple University for the Fall Soundprints Concert. Performed by Rajli Bicolli - Cello and Daniel Turcina - Violin. | |||
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Momentary Life |
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A live recording of the Temple Composers Orchestra conducted by Jeremy Gill performing at New Music On The Square in Philadelphia. Momentary Life is a piece that spans a lifetime in roughly ten minutes. It starts from the very beginning of life and the division of cells through meiosis. The piece then moves through scenes of human life from childhood through old age. The music recalls meaningful scenes like a first date, a first love, adulthood, and maturity. The music does not unfold as a narrative, but rather in a fashion more akin to the way one remembers the past. Some memories are very short and sparse while others are long and detailed. At times our memories seem to play in slow motion and then fast forward to the next event whether we want it to or not. In the end the memories become momentary fragments intricately woven together to form a final reflection on a life that has passed. The piece ends with the diffusion of memory and a transition into something new. – Ryan Olivier | |||
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And Sometimes You Wonder Why This piece was the result of a collaborative project with choreographer Ashleigh Penrod. The video is from a live performance at Conwell Dance Theater. Metronomic Hommage This is a new piece. If you like it and would like to know more, open the video an youtube and read the description.
Distance Distance is a visual music piece that explores the use of video and sound to enhance the audiences’ artistic experience. The piece highlights the way in which one's visual and aural perception of a subject is affected by time and distance. The inspiration for the piece came from the experience of viewing artworks by pointillist like Georges Seurat and the digital reproduction of images using pixels. | |||
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