Piano Lessons with Ryan J.

Pianist Ryan J

Ryan 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. Ryan 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. Jung holds a staff position at Juilliard under the Music Advancement Program, and was recently appointed music faculty at the 92NY.