Music Education

As passionate as I am about making music, I am equally passionate about developing the artistry of our future generations. I take pride in guiding composers and songwriters in honing their technical craft, nurturing their creative sensibility, while also providing them with performance opportunities.

College Teaching

For over a decade (2007-2022), Ryan Homsey served as Lecturer of Music in the Studio Composition department at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY).

Music Courses Taught:

  • Private Study: Composition MPE 5110

  • Models III MCO 2010 (Intermediate Music Theory)

  • Songwriting for the Musical PSW 3600

  • Studio Arranging II MCO 3555

  • Studio Composition Master Class MCO 4120

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With songwriters Madeline Mondrala, Mitski, LaurieAnne Creus, Eli Wolf-Chrstensen, Kelly Izzo, and Leila Hegazy during 'Songwriters NOW' at Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY

With songwriters Madeline Mondrala, Mitski, LaurieAnne Creus, Eli Wolf-Chrstensen, Kelly Izzo, and Leila Hegazy during 'Songwriters NOW' at Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY

New Music for New Generations

I am honored to have my works interpreted by pre-professionals and young musicians in training.

Purchase College's Orchestra Electric

Orchestra Electric is the college's experimental audio/visual series of new music performed by conservatory students under the direction of artistic director Jakub Ciupinski.

Purchase College Orchestra Electric! performs "Stage I (Litany) from Recurrent Stages, Jakub Ciupinski conductor, at the Performing Arts Center, Purchase, NY

Purchase College Orchestra Electric! performs "Stage I (Litany) from Recurrent Stages, Jakub Ciupinski conductor, at the Performing Arts Center, Purchase, NY

Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music

Face the Music is the only youth ensemble in the U.S. dedicated to studying and performing music by living composers.

Members of the Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music ensemble perform "Stage III (Grace)" from Recurrent Stages at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY Colleen Bixler and Ruby Pine, violins; Amirah Stewart, viola; Layla Krantz, cello

Members of the Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music ensemble perform "Stage III (Grace)" from Recurrent Stages at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Colleen Bixler and Ruby Pine, violins; Amirah Stewart, viola; Layla Krantz, cello

Rhea Fitzpatrick’s Senior Recital at Skidmore College

Rhea Fitzpatrick earned an English major while studying voice as a Filene Music Scholar Recipient, and was also awarded the Barbara Gruntal Allen Prize for demonstrating excellence in the study of voice, under the guidance of Dr. Sylvia Stoner Hawkins.

Rhea gave a glorious and varied senior vocal recital that included the premiere of one my my arts for soprano and piano entitled "We Do Not Know How to Say Goodbye" with beautiful and intuitive accompaniment by Carol Ann Elze. Rhea and I have a shared love of poetry, and I admire her impulse to feature contemporary music of a living composer as part of her final culminating undergraduate experience. Her level of expressivity is beyond her years.

Graduating Skidmore College senior, Rhea Fitzpatrick ‘25—a student of soprano Dr. Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins—sings “We Do Not Know How to Say Goodbye” during her Senior Vocal Recital accompanied by pianist Carol Ann Elze.