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Ryan Carraher
Awards
Berklee Guitar Department Achievement Award (March 2016)
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Ryan Carraher: Obscure Sorrows
by Mark Sullivan
Boston-based guitarist/composer Ryan Carraher chose a unique theme for his sophomore album: each track is inspired by a word from John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Koenig's website and YouTube channel present made-up words meant to complete our emotional language: each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language--to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don't yet have a word for." Carraher's quintet is almost repeated from his previous group album Vocturnal ...
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by Budd Kopman
Guitarist and composer Ryan Carraher is blessed with an enormous technique and a fertile and inventive musical mind (having received the Achievement Award from the guitar department of the Berklee College of Music), which is doubly impressive in one so young. Carraher states that the compositions in Vocturnal are heavily inspired by the classical composers of the 20th century (Messiaen, Schoenberg, Berg, Stravinsky, etc.) and the expressive freedom of jazz." In this he has beautifully succeeded, but what ...
read morePrimary Instrument
Guitar, electric
Location
Boston
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
-I have been teaching privately for 7 years -Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with a B.S degree in guitar performance -Studied with: David Tronzo, Tim Miller, Derryl Gabel, Joe Rogers, Jon Damian and Terry Syrek -Extremely fluent in music theory, both jazz and classical -Jazz/classical composer -I have opened for/played with: Allan Holdsworth, Leslie West, Pete Best, Joe Lynn Turner, Grand Funk Railroad and many more! My goal as a teacher is to present material in an extremely clear, methodical yet passionate and fun way. I want to work with my students to help them not only progress immensely on their instrument, but develop their own unique voice and philosophy when it comes to music. Email me at: [email protected] to set up lessons/discuss rates.
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Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Pâro
From: Obscure SorrowsBy Ryan Carraher
9 Thermidor
From: VocturnalBy Ryan Carraher
Vocturnal
From: VocturnalBy Ryan Carraher