Pianist, composer, and writer Ryan Jung is currently based between New York City and Basel. He specializes in classical and contemporary music, and is currently researching performance practice outside of traditional concert-hall venues for his doctoral dissertation. Additionally, he became an editor and contributing writer for Rhytune Mag, an independent musical journal co-founded with his colleagues in Basel.
As a member of the NSo5 Ensemble in NYC, Jung always searches for new ways to interact between composers and performers. As such, he has worked extensively with contemporary artists such as Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Ades, TAK Ensemble, Enno Poppe, Jorg Widmann, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, Betsy Jolas, and Wolfgang Rihm. Along with percussionist Reed Puleo, he is part of the contemporary music-facing Felt Duo. Later this year he will be making premiere appearances at Valley of the Moon (Sonoma, CA), Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR), and Volta Kammermusikfest (Basel, CH).
He made his Lincoln Center debut in Alice Tully Hall in 2021 and has since performed with the New York Philharmonic, and performed extensively across North America and Europe. Among the venues he has performed include: The Lucerne Festival (CH), the Avaloch Farm Institute (NH), Lunenburg Academy of Music in Nova Scotia, Music For Food (Boston), Schiermoonikoog Festival (NL), IMS Prussia Cove (UK), the Yellow Barn Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Aspen Music Festival. Jung was also recently a candidate of the 2025 ARD Musikbettwerbe in Munich and Beethoven Telekom Competition in Bonn, and was also a semi-finalist in the 2024 Orleans Competition, and 3rd Prize winner of the 2022 Wadsworth International Piano Competition.
Mr. Jung holds two Master degrees from the Juilliard School and Musik-akademie Basel, studying with Jerome Lowenthal, Hung-Kuan Chen, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Anton Kernjak, and Tobias Schabenberger (fortepiano). He received his BM from the New England Conservatory with Haesun Paik and jazz studies with Henrique Eisenmann. He is currently a DMA Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and concurrently pursuing a specialized masters’ degree in creative interpretation in new music performance in Basel. In his free time, he enjoys playing competitive chess and playing basketball.
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