Biography

Composer, sound designer, and electronic performer; Ryan Ingebritsen's music and sound art focus on the multi-dimensional aspects of sound while attaining a degree of clarity and lyricism rarely achieved in modern composition. Though grounded with an education of the cannon, Ingebritsen's music stands with both feet firmly planted in the 21st. Challenging performers to extend beyond themselves into the realm of interaction with visual, electronic, and natural experience, his music provides audiences a window to observe our multi-dimensional world through the interplay and interaction of sound.

A graduate of St. Olaf College school of music (B.M. 1995) and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M. 2000), he spent many years studying composition, electronic music and live improvisation in Eastern Europe where he was influenced by composers such as Krzystof Penderecki, Boguslaw Scheffer, and Tadeusz Baird. He studied under the tutelage of composer Zbigniew Bujarski and composer/audio artist Marek Choloniewski on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000. Since then he has appeared on international festivals and created music for various mediums in Chicago and abroad. He has collaborated as a sound designer and composer with new music groups such as International Contemporary Ensemble, eighth blackbird, and MAVerick Ensemble as well as composing sound and music for dance, large installations, and film.

Recent composition projects include "Train Time": a collaborative sound installation on the theme of trains for the state of the art J. Pritzker Pavilion sound system in Chicago as a part of the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival, "Spirit Landscape": a collaboration with 4 composers, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Chicago based Chinese visual artists the Zhou Brothers, sound design and programming for Marek Choloniewski's interactive multi-media "GPS-trans" project, "Drum Path" an outdoor audience interactive live sound piece for 5 drummers as a part of the Lurie Garden opening celebration, scores for choreographer Ginger Farley's "MoMent" and Erika Mott's "In Print", and his interactive electro-prog duo "We Can and We Must" with composer/performer Jason Wampler.

As a sound designer and engineer, he has premiered works by Steve Reich, David Lang, Julia Wolf, Michael Gordon, and is currently working with Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert on a new piece for eighth blackbird's 2009-10 season entitled "Slide".

Ingebritsen was recently awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Composition and the european premier of the first in his series of works for instrumentalist and real-time electronic performer, "Reparametrization 1" has received critical acclaim.