Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

Age:
20

Country of Birth:
USA

Country of Citizenship:
USA

Currently Residing In:
USA

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Musical Selection

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough is a native of California. He began his musical studies at the age of two and piano with his mother at age five. Music has always been an important part of his life; in addition to classical training he received as a child, he also received instruction in the practice of music from other cultures, including the Hindustani tradition of Northern India and the complex percussion music of Mali. Because of the diverse influences of his musical upbringing, his playing has often been noted as having an unusual musical openness and attention to pure human expression. Home-schooled for much of his life, Mr. McCullough began college at Humboldt State University at age 15, graduating three years later summa cum laude with a BA in music, studying with Dr. Deborah Calsquin. He currently studies with John Perry at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Other musical instructors have included the late Laurette Goldberg, Yves Henry, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal and Tumi Watenabe. His piano performances have taken him from rural California to the big cities of Europe. He has appeared in concert at such venues as UNESCO in Paris, the Dolomites in Italy, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and on the airwaves of NPR. Mr. McCullough has appeared as a soloist with the Colburn Orchestra, Eureka Symphony, Humboldt Symphony, San Francisco State University Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including gold medals at the Milosz Magin in Paris and California Association of Professional Music Teachers, and silver medal winner at the Virginia Waring and World Piano Competitions. He was also named as "Most Promising Musician" by the LA Philharmonic's Bronislaw Kaper.

Solo Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 870, from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Claude Debussy:
Estampes
   Pagodes
   La soirée dans Grenade
   Jardins sous la pluie

Franz Schubert:
Impromptu No. 1 in F Minor, D. 935
Impromptu No. 2 in A-Flat Major, D. 935
Impromptu No. 3 in B-Flat Major, D. 935
Impromptu No. 4 in F Minor, D. 935

Milosz Magin:
Sonata No. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101

Joseph Haydn:
Sonata in C Minor, Hob. XVI/20

Required Piece

Aaron Copland:
Piano Sonata: Vivace (2nd movement)

Trio

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"

Concertos

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58

Robert Schumann:
Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54

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