Pamela Ryan

Pamela Ryan has served as Professor of Viola at The Florida State University College of Music since 1989. She received a Master’s degree from the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. She studied viola with Paul Doktor, Karen Tuttle, Masao Kawasaki and Itzhak Perlman. She was winner of the 1983 Aspen Concerto Competition, and has since recorded new music for the Col Legno and Canadian Broadcasting Company labels, earning praise from the American Record Guide for her “superb technique and musicianship.” She has performed as faculty artist for summer festivals at Aspen, Yellow Barn, Schlern/Italy, Green Mountain, Idyllwild and Bowdoin. For three years she toured North America as violist of the Bowling Green String Quartet, and served as principal violist of the Southwest Florida Symphony.

By invitation, Professor Ryan gave the collegiate viola master class at the American String Teachers Association national conference and performed as soloist at the national American Viola Society Congress. Ryan has earned the FSU University Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, and her former students hold viola positions worldwide.