Ryan McAdams

American conductor Ryan McAdams is equally at home in the opera house as he is in the concert hall, and on both sides of the Atlantic. A contemporary music advocate, Ryan is the Principal Conductor of the Crash Ensemble, Ireland's foremost contemporary music group and performed at New Music Dublin Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He has also worked with Irish National Opera at the Galway International Arts Festival, the Barbican, London, Dutch National, Saratoga Opera and Opernhaus Zürich. Recent highlights include a return to the Orchestre National de Ile de France in Paris, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Istanbul State Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo, the Teatro Filarmonico Verona the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. 

Ryan has worked with many Italian orchestras such as I Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra della Toscana, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and has collaborated extensively across America with opera companies and orchestras. 

He was the first-ever recipient of both the Sir Georg Solti Emerging Conductor Award and the Aspen-Glimmerglass Prize for Opera Conducting. He was a Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood and an Assistant Conductor at the Aspen Music Festival and an Apprentice Conductor at Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival. Ryan studied at the Juilliard School and Indiana University and was a Fulbright Scholar. When Ryan is not travelling, he lives in Brighton with his family.