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Ryan Gallagher

Ryan Gallagher will be a fourth-year composition major at The Juilliard School this coming fall, where he studies with Christopher Rouse. A native of Wooster, Ohio, he studied composition with his father, Jack Gallagher of The College of Wooster. Other teachers include Samuel Adler at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Freie Universität Berlin, Martin Bresnick at the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop, George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School, and Richard Cornell and Julian Wachner at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In addition, he has studied privately with Stephen Jaffe. Noble Accents and Inescapable Rhythms, winner of a 2005 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, was performed by eighth blackbird at the 2004 Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival. His 2006 ASCAP award-winning work, Stress Test, for solo percussion, was premiered last November at The Juilliard School by Alex Lipowski.

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