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Ryan Streber is a composer and audio engineer based in New York City whose works have been performed in the United States and abroad by artists and ensembles such as The American Composers Orchestra, The Lucerne Percussion Group, The Juilliard Orchestra, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Flexible Music, Line C3 Percussion Quartet, ACME, Boston Conservatory, Gemini Youth Orchestra, Fountain Chamber Ensemble, and many others. His most recent orchestral work, Arcuare, was read by The ACO in its 2007 Underwood New Music Readings. Other recent works include new solo pieces for guitarist Daniel Lippel, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and cellist Sumire Kudo, as well as ensemble compositions for the Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble and BoCo Wind Ensemble, Bacchae Fragments for 12 percussionists which was commissioned by the Lucerne Festival Academy's percussion ensemble, and the new music ensemble counter)induction of which he has recently become a member.

As an audio engineer, Ryan owns and operates Oktaven Audio in Yonkers, NY. He has worked with numerous artists and ensembles including International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Dan Lippel, Claire Chase, ACME, Nadia Sirota, Flexible Music, Yesaroun' Duo, Jefferson Friedman, Corey Dargel, Jessye Norman and Laura Karpman, Jason Eckardt, Samuel Adler, New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble, Monks of Doom, New Paths, and many others. Projects engineered by Ryan have been released on the New Focus, GM, Tzadik, Naxos, New Amsterdam, Centaur, Neuma, Capstone, and Arabesque labels. He interned at Mercenary Audio in Boston and DigIt Post-Production in NYC and currently works as a freelance location recordist in and around NYC.

Besides composing concert music, Ryan has scored two short films, designed sound for over a dozen theatrical productions in and around New York, played electric guitar and percussion in bands, and collaborated with other artists in music and multi-media performances and recordings ranging from pop and rock to experimental and jazz.

Ryan received his BMA with Distinction and MMA from The Juilliard School, studying composition with Christopher Rouse and Milton Babbitt. He currently serves as the director of Juilliard's Composers Forum and coordinator for the composition department, and he has also taught composition in the school's Evening Division. He has been awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould award and Juilliard's Palmer Dixon prize.

Born in 1979 in Rochester, NY, Ryan currently resides in Yonkers, NY.