Ryan Keith Dudenbostel recently relocated to Los Angeles from New York City, where he served for three seasons as a rehearsal and cover conductor at the Manhattan School of Music, preparing the student orchestras for such eminent conductors as Philippe Entremont, Yoav Talmi, Kent Tritle, H. Robert Reynolds, and Kenneth Kiesler. Recent engagements include Pagliacci with the Pocket Opera of New York, an ongoing recording and orchestration project for the Pacific Encore Performances opera repertory company, and concerts with the Marrowstone Music Festival, where he serves as a member of the conducting faculty. Presently he is a Teaching Associate at UCLA, where he co-directs the UCLA Symphony and serves as Assistant Conductor for performances by the UCLA Philharmonia and Opera Studio.
Also a clarinetist, Dudenbostel recently appeared in a series of critically-acclaimed New York performances of Ricky Ian Gordon’s theatrical song-cycle Orpheus and Euridice, alongside his wife, soprano Heather Dudenbostel. For two years, he regularly played for the Tony-Award-winning revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center. He has also performed with the Civic Opera of Kansas City and Kansas City Puccini Festival.
Ryan Dudenbostel has collaborated with vocalists John Duykers and Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, violinist Mark O’Connor, violist David Aaron Carpenter, and the legendary actor James Earl Jones, among others. He has also appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Currently pursuing DMA studies in conducting at UCLA, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri—Kansas City Conservatory and Western Washington University. He has studied conducting with Neal Stulberg, Robert Olson, David Wallace, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier and Rossen Milanov.
Outside of music, Ryan is a long-distance runner and active outdoorsman. He also is an avid cook, baker, and maker of fine artisanal soaps. He and his wife, singer-actor Heather Dudenbostel, live in Los Angeles.
