Donald Ryan has been called “a musical kaleidoscope, sparkling at everything he plays." As a pianist he has triggered enthusiastic responses from across the U. S. A. in venues as diverse as the fabled Carnegie Hall and the Wayne Newton Theater in Las Vegas. He is a diplomate and Madeyska Award recipient of the Ninth International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
The applause has resounded also in England, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland and the Caribbean. Among the many luminaries he has collaborated with are Franco Autori, Henry Mancini, Ralph Carmichael, Eddie Daniels, Steve Wilkerson, Diahann Carroll, Eileen Farrell, Johnny Desmond, Joe Williams, Andrea Baker, William Warfield, Leona Mitchell, and Simon Estes.
Mr. Ryan showed a keen proclivity towards music when he was only a preschooler in his native Trinidad, West Indies. By his early teens he was a prizewinner in national competitions, and was the pianist for a live, weekly radio program that reached the entire eastern Caribbean. He earned a B. Mus. Ed. degree from Oral Roberts University and M. Mus from the University of Tulsa.
At present Donald Ryan continues an active career in music as a concert and recording artist, and as a member of the keyboard faculty at his alma mater, Oral Roberts University. He also serves on the boards of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust, the Ragtime For Tulsa Foundation, and is a member of the Mayor's Task Force For The Performing Arts.
