Ryan Chow

Modern Musical Musings

Modern Musical Musings by the Moderately Muddled Me.

Contact

I'm currently looking for collaboration opportunities, within and beyond performance.You can reach me by email at ryan.chow.2020@gmail.com

Brief

While all roads might lead to Rome, many musical roads lead to neoclassicism. From neoclassicism as satire, profound respect, or establishing a middle-ground between common practice and dodecaphony, there are a host of motivations behind neoclassical impulses.I completed my Doctor of Musical Arts Degree (DMA) from the University of Maryland in 2019 and also hold a Master of Arts (MA) in Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation. Since 2020, I've been working in assessment research while writing about, and discovering, new repertoire in my free time.

Quotes

“Antiquity through Modernity” was a success; entertainingly, intellectually, and spiritually a satisfying whole; even symmetrical according to the aesthetics of 18th century European classical music! Let there be more from Ryan Chow. - Dr. John Sharpley

“[Ryan] was in complete command throughout, mastering its intricacies and lightning-quick turns with virtuosic aplomb.- Dr Chang Tou Liang

“Not only does he play commandingly, and sometimes thrillingly, but he approaches the study of his pieces with probing dedication." - Bradford Gowen

READ

[Dissertation] The Role of Neoclassicism in Generalizing Tradition

[Paper] From Professional to Public Discourse through Neoclassicism

[Review] In Retrospect: The Road to Neoclassicism

[Review] Antiquity through Modernity

LISTEN

[Live Recording] Antiquity Through Modernity

[Recording] Ernest Bloch: Piano Sonata (1935)

[Recording] Claude Debussy: Images I

[Recording] John Ireland: Piano Sonata (1920)

[Recording] Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C# minor

[Recording] Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Sonata (1954)