Dutch / American Baritone Ryan Hugh Ross holds degrees from Southwest Minnesota State University, the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University-Long Beach, and Wales International Academy of Voice where he studied with world renowned tenor Dennis O’Neill CBE. He also has studied with acclaimed English baritone John Rawnsley. In December 2023, Ryan received his Doctorate in Musicology/Exile Studies at the University of Southampton, supported by the ORT Marks Fellowship.

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Ryan has enjoyed success the concert and operatic stages, working with operatic luminaries such as Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, among others.

 

Recent roles include: Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème for the Rhosygilwen Festival – July 2022; The Detective in Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, Captain Buyanov in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for Grange Park Opera; Zaretsky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for Opera Loki; Eugene Onegin for the Rhosygilwen Festival;  Avram the Bookseller alongside Bryn Terfel as Tevye in Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof for the 2015 BBC Proms;  Scottish Soldier in the European premiere of Michael Puts' Silent Night for the International Wexford Opera Festival; Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème for the International Barga Bel Canto Festival in Barga, Italy.     

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Recent projects of note include the 2022 World Premiere of the joint commissioned song cycle titled Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death. The work’s October 2022 Icelandic premiere was the subject of an Emmy Award winning documentary by Pioneer PBS. A commercial recording of the cycle is set for release in Spring 2025. (A link to the doc can be found HERE)

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Recent recordings include his 2019 debut album A Journey in Exile : The Lieder of Julius Burger on the Spätlese Musik label. The recording process was the subject of a documentary Julius Burger : A Journey in Exile which premiered in 2021. (A link to the doc can be found HERE). Previously, Ryan performed the US premiere of Two Songs for Baritone and Orchestra by Julius Burger (Bürger) in Minnesota with the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra as part of the Voices of Exile Festival at Southwest Minnesota State University. 

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Aside from his career as an operatic baritone, Ryan is an active academic in the field of Musicology and has contributed articles for the online resource ORT Music and the Holocaust, the BBC’s History blog (‘Julius Burger’s Themes of London: an Émigré’s legacy at the BBC’) well as the resource New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His doctoral thesis titled Media, Migration and the Music Aesthetic: Julius Burger’s Radio Potpourri (1933-1945) was published in October 2023. 

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Ryan’s book:  Julius Bürger: Composer – Conductor – Vocal Coach was published in partnership with the Exilarte Center for Banned Composers (MDW). The biographic/compositional overview was edited by the center’s director and founder, Herr Dr. Gerold Gruber, and is made available through the academic publishers- Böhlau Verlag.
 

Ryan resides in Wales with his wife - Mezzo-Soprano, Siân Cameron.

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