GWENDOLYN RYAN

Gwendolyn Ryan is currently a Masters student at the Shenandoah Conservatory, studying Flute Performance. She also currently works at the Music School of Delaware with her teacher, Maestro Simeone Tartaglione, as the Assistant Conductor and Coordinator of the Delaware Youth Symphony Orchestra. She also serves as the Orchestral Coordinator for the Delaware Orchestral and Chamber Music Institute. In addition, she has a studio of students at the International School of Music, where she teaches flute and recorder. She has worked as a teaching assistant in Music Theory and Music History at the Catholic University of America and the University of Delaware, respectively. She has taught multiple masterclasses for high school students on performance skills. She recently completed her time at the University of Delaware having earned a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Music Education with Honors and minors in Applied Voice and History. She also recently completed working as the Intern Coordinator of the Delaware Youth Wind Ensemble and as the Music History Undergraduate Teaching Assistant. With experience in performing flute in the Wind Ensemble and Marching and Pep Bands, percussion in the Collegiate Band and Steel Band, singing in the University Singers, and serving as co-director of the Flute Choir at the University of Delaware, she has had a varied college experience.

Ms. Ryan currently resides in Winchester, VA. Her most notable teachers include Maestro Simeone Tartaglione and Dr. Lauren Reynolds for conducting and Dr. Julietta Curenton, Dr. Michelle Cho, and Eileen Grycky for flute.​