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Ryan Yamashiro

January 24, 2025 by

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Ryan Yamashiro

Lecturer of Bassoon

Ryan Yamashiro is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he received a Master of Music Degree in 2019 studying with Barrick Stees. He received his Bachelor’s Degree of Art in Music Performance in the spring of 2017 from UCLA where he studied with John Steinmetz. Ryan has played with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Billings Symphony Orchestra, and Battle Creek Symphony. He was a chamber music fellow at the Kent Blossom Music Festival in 2018 and in 2017 performed as a concerto soloist with the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra. Ryan has been engaged as a guest artist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Music and keeps his own private bassoon studio. When not playing the bassoon, Ryan enjoys roasting coffee, playing chess, and computer programming.

Education

MM, Music Performance – Cleveland Institute of Music (2019)
BA, Music Performance – UCLA (2017)

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