Biography

Ryan Dudenbostel is a conductor, arranger, and clarinetist living and working in New York City. He serves frequently as a preparation and cover conductor at the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently conducting a series of recordings for an upcoming television series produced by the Pacific Opera/Pacific Encore Performances repertory company. This past summer, he returned for his third season as associate conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony's Marrowstone Music Festival, to which he was invited to return as a principal conductor in 2010. Dudenbostel is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he earned a Masters Degree in orchestral conducting, and holds a Bachelor's Degree in clarinet performance from Western Washington University, where he was named by the Music Department faculty as the Outstanding Graduate of 2004. He has studied conducting with Robert Olson, David Wallace, and Kenneth Kiesler, and with Gustav Meier and Rossen Milanov at the International Conducting Workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2005, Dudenbostel taught courses in aural skills at Western Washington University and directed the Composers' Ensemble, a group dedicated to the performance of student compositions. He is also a practiced orchestrator and arranger, having prepared ensemble accompaniments for a number of vocal works, including a string quartet version of Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte for baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 2006.

As a clarinetist, Ryan Dudenbostel has performed with the Civic Opera of Kansas City, and played principal clarinet for the Kansas City Puccini Festival's 2007 production of Tosca. In New York, he regularly appears as a substitute musician for the Tony-Award-winning revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center, and recently performed in the New York Musical Theatre Festival's production of To Paint the Earth. During his undergraduate studies, he served as principal clarinetist in the Western Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra, and appeared as a guest soloist with the latter ensemble in the spring of 2002, performing Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. He has played in the Marrowstone Music Festival Orchestra and the St. Martin's College Chamber Workshop, and was a founding member of the Fünf Wind Quintet.

Outside of music, Ryan is a long-distance runner and active outdoorsman, enjoying hiking, cycling, kayaking, skiing, and snowshoeing. He and his wife, singer-actor Heather Dudenbostel, live in New York City.

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