Biography
A native of Los Angeles, California, Ryan Yuré lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. He performs on both clarinet and saxophone as a guest musician with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. He has also performanced with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Chamber Orchestra, and New World Symphony, among others. He has also appeared at the Tanglewood, Aspen, New Hampshire, Bowdoin, Santo Domingo, and Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music festivals.
Throughout his career, Ryan has had the privilege of collaborating with an extraordinary range of artists, including Emanuel Ax, Pierre Boulez, Andrea Bocelli, Elliott Carter, LL Cool J, Sutton Foster, Arlo Guthrie, John Harbison, Hugh Jackman, James Levine, Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Audra McDonald, Seth MacFarlane, Bernadette Peters, Steve Reich, Arturo Sandoval, James Taylor, John Williams, and John Zorn.
In addition to his position at the College of the Holy Cross, Ryan serves on the faculties of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he is Chair of the Woodwind Department.
Ryan's students have gone on to pursue music studies at leading institutions, including Juilliard, Eastman, New England Conservatory, Northwestern, USC, and the Manhattan School of Music. Others have carried the discipline, focus, and creativity developed through music into their academic pursuits, earning admission to universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Columbia, Tufts, and Williams. Regardless of the paths they choose, Ryan finds his greatest reward in helping students discover their potential, develop their abilities and achieve their goals.