Ryan Rogers graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston Moores School of Music in May 2018, majoring in Piano Performance and Choral Music Education, where he served as Director of Floreat, Student Director, and Tenor Section Leader under Drs. Betsy Cook Weber and Jeb Mueller. At Moores, he studied piano with Dr. Tali Morgulis and voice with Zachery Averyt. Currently, Ryan is pursuing a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
After completing his undergraduate, Ryan served as an Assistant Choir Director at North Shore High School until 2021, where he directed all five choirs at the North Shore Ninth Grade Campus as well as the Chamber Choir and the show choir, Perfect Harmony, at North Shore Senior High. During his tenure as a Texas music educator, his ensembles never received below a superior rating at UIL evaluations and Madrigal Festival competitions. |
In addition to teaching, Ryan is involved with several performing ensembles, including the San Antonio Chamber Choir, performing with them at the 2013 National ACDA Conference in Dallas, Texas and the 2014 TCDA Conference in San Antonio, Texas. He returned as a guest collaborative pianist with the ensemble for “I Got Rhythm…North Meets South” with the TCU Chorale in April 2019. As a collaborative pianist, Ryan also performed for the 2013 Cactus Pear Music Festival Young Artist Program and the 2015 Saarburg International Chamber Music Festival in Saarburg, Germany.
At UH, he served as Tenor Section Leader for the Moores School Concert Chorale’s world championships at the 2015 Grand Prix of Nations in Magdeburg, Germany, and the 2018 Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in Debrecen, Hungary. In addition to his service as Director of Floreat, he sang in two other student-directed a cappella ensembles at Moores, Men of Moores and Ardore. Ryan performs frequently with the Piping Rock Singers, Chorus Angelorum, and Bach Society Houston, traveling to perform with the latter ensemble for the 2017 Leipzig Bach Fest. While the program was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ryan was selected as a conductor for the renowned 2020 Norfolk Choral Conducting Workshop with Simon Carrington. During the pandemic, he began editing audio for virtual performances, assembling in excess of two hundred hymns, anthems, and songs for various universities, schools, churches, and organizations throughout the country. In his free time, Ryan enjoys running, singing with friends, arranging, and recording his own compositions. |