Composer | Conductor | Educator
Ryan Reeson is a composer, conductor, and educator with a passion for creative collaboration and community-building. As a composer, his works have been performed by many ensembles, most notably by the Miami Frost Chorale, 2014 Colorado ACDA choir, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra. His choral music has been performed across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Reeson is an active arranger, with clients including the Illinois Symphony, and artists including Bad Snacks, Lou Roy, MELD, Casey Loudon and Matthew Brown. Most recently, his work "Deepest Blue" was recorded at Spotify Studios in Downtown Los Angeles. The piece is sampled in and provides much of the musical material for Bad Snacks' "Technicolor." Upcoming projects include a choral commission from Saint Anselm's Abbey School in Washington D.C. and a new wind ensemble piece for the Los Angeles Winds. He is engaged in numerous collaborations including working on a trailer music EP and writing a musical.
Reeson is the former Assistant Conductor of the Riverside Philharmonic and the former Music Director of the Lancaster Community Orchestra. He has served as an Assistant Conductor for the Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthews, the Westlake Village Symphony, the Southeast Symphony, the Ars Flores Symphony, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in conducting workshops including the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive and the Eastman Summer Conducting Institute where he conducted the Rochester Philharmonic. Reeson graduated with honors from the University of Miami Frost School of Music with a degree in Music Composition and holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, TX.
Reeson taught music theory and songwriting courses at California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley and served as a staff accompanist. He is a member of the Music Teacher's Association of California and teaches a studio of 28 private students. His students have garnered awards and accolades including the Composition award in the National PTA Reflections For Music and the Glendale Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition.
