He is an alumnus of the McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his academic focus featured songwriting, film composition, and motion imaging. After receiving the Pete Carpenter Fellowship from BMI in 2003, where he studied briefly under composer Mike Post, Ryan moved to Los Angeles. His path would later take him over 5,000 miles away to the edge of the eastern Amazon basin of Bolivia, where his wife Carla’s family resi ...read more