I’m an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University. I study opera, song, and intersections of music and drama, with an emphasis on 20th-century and contemporary opera, minimalism, and 19th-century Lieder. I am currently working on a book titled Making American Opera after “Einstein,” which centers on the efforts of artists and institutions from the 1980s to the present to redefine what American opera is and how we experience it.
My writing appears in the New York Times and NewMusicBox, the journal American Music, and the book Rethinking Reich; and is forthcoming in Cambridge Opera Journal. I present research papers regularly at national and international conferences, and have given pre-concert lectures and public talks for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, and WGTE Public Media. At BGSU I lead courses on opera, chamber music, symphonic music, music appreciation, and 20th- and 21st-century music. I also work closely with students in the DMA in Contemporary Music program. In addition to my research and teaching, I maintain an active profile as a performer of contemporary, early, and sacred music. I tweet occasionally: @ryan_ebright. My full CV is here. |