C o n c e r t s
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7 Feb 2024 | Wed 7'30pm
Berklee Composition Faculty Recital
Venue: David Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College - Boston, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE
Info: https://www.berklee.edu/events/berklee-composition-department-faculty-concert-spring-2024
Ryan makes a rare solo performance, debuting firefly dusk, which is actually a reworking of fireflies for violin duo - part of a series of reworkings of that piece. Works by Marti Epstein, Derek Hurst, Elenor Aversa, and Mark Applebaum will also be featured.
9 May 2024 | Thurs 8pm
Longy School of Music: Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
Venue: Pickman Hall - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE
Info: TBA
Sakurako Kanemitsu (Graduate Performance Diploma candidate) gives her graduating recital, which will feature Ryan's snow day, which she commissioned, inspired by their first blizzard on the East Coast. Will also include works Frederic Chopin, Marti Epstein, and JS Bach.
13 Jul 2024 | Sat 5pm
Starlit Hour: Rose Hegele, soprano & Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
Venue: The Lilypad - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Admission: $15 suggested donation
More Info: TBA
Soprano Rose Hegele and Sakurako Kanemitsu give the Boston premiere of my latest art song, july midnight, in Cambridge, though it will still be light out. It's a very Vermonty piece about nighttime and nature and the gentle wonder that it offers us, based on a text from New England poet Amy Lowell. They will also perform several other piano solos and art songs generally centered on nighttime.
23 Sep 2024 | Mon 7'30pm
Berklee Composition Faculty Recital
Venue: David Friend Recital Hall - Boston, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE
Amelia Hollander Ames gives the East Coast premiere of my Colors in Motion for solo viola, along with other works by my esteemed Berklee colleagues Larry Thomas Bell, Francine Trester, Nomi Epstein, Luke Blackburn, and Apostolos Paraskevas. Lachnemann is not on faculty at Berklee at the moment, but he will also be featured.
7 Oct 2024 | Mon 6pm
Monday Concert Series feat. Amelia Hollander Ames, solo viola
Venue: St. Ann School - Brooklyn, New York
Admission: FREE
More Info: https://saintannsny.org/event/first-monday-concert/
Amelia Hollander Ames brings Colors in Motion for solo viola to Brooklyn NY in her solo recital! Also on the program are works by Jessie Montgomery, Iva Bittova, and Judith Alejandra.
31 Oct 2024 | Thurs noon
"Exhibition:"; feat. Sakurako Kanemitsu POSTPONED due to injury :( STAY TUNED!
Venue: Pitzer Center at UC Davis - Davis, California
Admission: FREE
More Info: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/exhibition-solo-piano-works-inspired-visual-art
Sakurako and I premiere our new collaboration, Three London Etudes, commissioned by and for visual artist Peter London. Each etude is directly inspired by one of Peter's vibrant color drawings... and in a sideways way, by the piano virtuosos of the 19th century. The program will also include works by Debussy, Liszt, and Mussorgsky, all inspired by visual art.
10 Nov 2024 | Sun 4'30pm
An Evening of Movement, Music, & Poetry
Venue: St. Augustine's African Orthodox Church - Cambridge, MA
Admission: FREE
firefly dusk serves as the opening work in a collaboration of dance, music, and spoken word featuring Jimena Berjemo, Judson Evans, Sakurako Kanemitsu, and Alli Ross.
27 Feb 2025 | Thurs 7pm
Evocative Music for Solo Piano; feat. Sakurako Kanemitsu upcoming!
Venue: Berk Recital Hall (1A) at Berklee College - Boston, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE
More Info: https://college.berklee.edu/composition/events/evocative-music-for-solo-piano-feat-sakurako-kanemitsu
The East Coast premiere of Three London Etudes, commissioned by and for visual artist Peter London. Also on the program are works by Berklee colleagues Marti Epstein, Andrew List, and others.
10 Apr 2025 | Thurs 7'30pm
Symbiosis: feat. Ryan Suleiman, The Fourth Wall Ensemble, Rose Hegele, Sakurako Kanemitsu, & David Russell upcoming!
Venue: The Boston Conservatory (T401) - Boston, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE ($15 suggested donation)
Follow the project: https://www.instagram.com/symbiosis.theory/
A portrait concert of original works, supported by the Berklee Faculty Fellowship Grant, Symbiosis is a collaborative project which features Ryan as composer and The Fourth Wall Ensemble as performers / stage directors. Embracing the inherent theatricality of concert music, this unique and unusual performance reflects on the duality of beauty and dread in contemporary life, aiming to promote contemplation, healing, and action through its engagement with nature and the climate crisis.