Location: Manhattan, NYC
Education
- MM from the Juilliard School
- BM from the New England Conservatory
Experience
Ryan enjoys teaching piano to students of all ages and levels.
Bio
American pianist Ryan J. is currently based in New York City and enjoys performing
repertoire of diverse backgrounds and genres. He is especially dedicated to new music, and has
collaborated with renowned composers such as Tyshawn Sorey, Jorg Widmann, Nico Muhly,
Wolfgang Rihm, and Thomas Ades. He has also worked with artists such as Richard Goode,
Dénes Várjon, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Alasdair Beatson, Sō Percussion, and The Aeolus
String Quartet. Jung was also a recent candidate of the 2024 Orleans Competition and 3rd Prize
winner of the 2022 Wadsworth International Piano Competition. He made his Lincoln Center
debut in Alice Tully Hall in 2021 and has since performed at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland,
the Yellowbarn Festival (Vermont), Music Academy of the West (California), and the Aspen
Music Festival (Colorado), among many others.
Ryan completed his MM at the Juilliard School with Jerome Lowenthal and Hung-Kuan
Chen, and received his BM from the New England Conservatory with Haesun Paik and studied
jazz with Henrique Eisenmann. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the CUNY Graduate
Center with Jeremy Denk, Conor Hanick and Ursula Oppens. Ryan holds a staff position at
Juilliard under the Music Advancement Program.