Ryan Olivier is a doctoral student at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University where he received his Masters of Music under the tutelage of Maurice Wright, Richard Brodhead and Matthew Greenbaum. Ryan has also studied with Samuel Adler in Berlin and with Kevin Puts and Robert Aldridge at the Brevard Music Center. His music has been performed by the Momenta Quartet and the Cygnus Ensemble, and his various interests have led him to work with a vast array of media including electronics, video, and dance. His electroacoustic work has been featured at Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, Miami’s 12 Nights Festival, Pennsylvania State University’s Crosscurrents Festival, Temple University’s Cybersounds Concert Series, and the New York City Electroc-Acoustic Music Festival.

Ryan was recently commission by choreographer Carolina del Hierro to write an extended work for dance, electronics, and cello entitled Endurance in Durance. The work was premiered in Philadelphia in April. Ryan graduated Magna Cum Laude in music composition from Loyola University New Orleans where he was the recipient of the Anthony Valentino Music Composition Award and Loyola University’s Award for Outstanding Composer. His orchestral piece, Dark Harbor, was selected in the Loyola Orchestra Composition Contest to premiere in the Orchestra’s 2007 Spring Concert. While at Loyola he studied with James Paton Walsh and William Horne.