With performances and broadcasts around the world and a growing discography, Jeffrey Ryan has emerged as one of Canada's leading composers. His varied catalogue ranges from opera, art song, and choral music to chamber ensemble and orchestral works, with commissions and performances by major orchestras, ensembles and soloists in Canada and internationally. The 2007/08 season saw no fewer than six world premieres, including works for the Vancouver and Toronto Symphonies and the Gryphon Trio, Standing Wave, musica intima, and Tiresias.
Twice nominated for Classical Composition of the Year Juno awards (Quantum Mechanics in 2008 and Pangaea in 2005, the latter recorded by the Thunder Bay Symphony), his works have also been recorded by the Bowling Green Philharmonia (Ophélie), the Hannaford Street Silver Band (She Threw It Down, Anathema), and the Penderecki Quartet (String Quartet #3).
Based in Vancouver, Ryan is Composer Advisor for Music Toronto, and Composer Laureate of the Vancouver Symphony, after serving as the VSO's Composer-in-Residence from 2002 to 2007.
Jeffrey Ryan holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Toronto and The Cleveland Institute of Music.