“Whatever I do, I want to play good music and make the instrument itself more of a regular visitor to concert halls. People still come up to me and say they’ve never heard music like this on an accordion. It’s important to go beyond the novelty factor.”
A year after winning the coveted Gold Medal in the 2021 Royal Overseas League (ROSL) Annual Music Competition, Ryan became the first ever accordionist to win a place on BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme. It had immediate spin-offs. “I found myself doing outside broadcasts for the BBC Breakfast Show beside the freezing canal at Fort Augustus, and in the Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Festival,” he says. Read the full article here