Ryan Lindveit (lind-vite) is Lecturer of Music Theory and Composition in the College of Music at the University of Tennessee.

As a composer, he takes inspiration from literature, art, science, technology, and personal experience in order to craft colorful and emotionally vivid musical journeys. Lindveit’s works have been commissioned and performed by several distinguished ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, United States Navy Band, American Composers Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, New York Youth Symphony, Interlochen World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Symphony in C, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Orkest de Ereprijs, Akropolis Reed Quintet, FearNoMusic, the City of Tomorrow, and the wind ensembles at Northwestern, Michigan, UT Austin, Baylor, Arizona State, Penn State, Texas Tech, USC, and Yale, among many others. His awards include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a BMI Student Composer Award, the New York Youth Symphony’s First Music Commission, winner of the Wind Band Association of Singapore Composition Contest, and winner of the Symphony in C Young Composers Competition. He earned Special Distinction in both the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize (Close Up at a Distance for orchestra) and the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize (Spinning Yarns for wind ensemble). Lindveit also composed the score for the Sam Elliott-narrated docuseries Honor Guard released on Amazon Prime in 2020.

Lindveit holds degrees from the University of Southern California (BM), Yale University (MM, MMA), and the University of Michigan (DMA). In addition, he earned the Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy from the University of Michigan. At USC, he was selected as the Salutatorian of his class and named the Outstanding Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. At Yale he was awarded the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Memorial Prize upon graduation. His mentors include Michael Daugherty, Aaron Jay Kernis, Andrew Norman, Chris Theofanidis, Ted Hearne, Frank Ticheli, Bright Sheng, David Lang, Martin Bresnick, and Donald Crockett. A committed educator, Lindveit has taught composition, music theory, orchestration, film music, and music technology privately and at the collegiate level.