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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 Betsy Cook Weber. He completed a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in 2023, where he studied with David Hill, André Thomas, and Jeffrey Douma. Currently, Ryan is pursuing a Doctor of Music at Indiana University and serves as Music Director at First Presbyterian Church, Bloomington.
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 UH, Maestre of Moores and Ardore. After completing his undergraduate, Ryan served as an Assistant Choir Director at North Shore Senior 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 at North Shore Senior High. During his tenure as a Texas music educator, his ensembles never received below a superior rating (I) at UIL evaluations and Madrigal Festival competitions. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received the Top 5% Dazzling Diamond Educator Award from Galena Park ISD once in 2019 and twice in 2021. |
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Ryan moved to New Haven, Connecticut in Fall 2023 to pursue a Master of Music at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. At Yale, he sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum, the Yale Camerata, Yale Recital Chorus, Battell Chapel Choir, and Marquand Chapel Choir. Ryan also served as the Assistant Conductor of the Yale Glee Club, Director of the Glee Club Chamber Singers, and the Assistant Conductor of the Greater New Haven Community Chorus.
Currently, Ryan is pursuing a Doctor of Music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. There, he has served as an Assistant Conductor for the contemporary choral ensemble NOTUS, as Chorus Master for The Nutcracker, and as Director of Pro Cantare. In addition to the program at IU, Ryan is excited to serve as Music Director for First Presbyterian Church, Bloomington. Ryan was recently awarded the Margaret E. Hillis Memorial Scholarship for his studies at IU. In addition to teaching and curricular work, Ryan is involved with numerous performing ensembles, including the San Antonio Chamber Choir, the Piping Rock Singers, Chorus Angelorum, and Bach Society Houston, traveling to perform with the latter ensemble for the 2017 Leipzig Bach Fest. He has been a Conducting Fellow for numerous programs, including the Illinois Bach Academy, Berkshire Choral International, the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute, Sarteano Chamber Choir Workshop, and the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute. He also participated as a student conductor in the ACDA Eastern 2022 Conducting Masterclass with Dr. Brandon Boyd in Boston, MA. 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. His work emphasizes both musical excellence and community engagement, which remain central to his mission as an educator and conductor. In his free time, Ryan enjoys running, singing with friends, arranging, and recording his own compositions |