Ryan has performed with the Green Bay Packers band and was a member of the Denver Nuggets house band. As a pianist, Ryan has performed throughout the country as well as in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Holland and France. Under his direction the UMD Jazz Ensemble I has performed in Italy, Switzerland and Holland at the Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals, as well as performing at the MMEA and WMEA annual conferences, UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival and throughout the region. Ryan also coordinates the annual Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival at UMD, drawing internationally known artists and high schools from throughout the state. Ryan Frane is the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he oversees the jazz studies major and jazz studies program, teaches Jazz Ensemble I, Jazz Combo I, Jazz Theory, Jazz Pedagogy, Jazz Piano and other courses. As a dedicated educator, she is on faculty at Carleton College, where she directs the jazz ensemble, coaches chamber groups, and teaches jazz piano and improvisation. She holds degrees from both Lawrence University and The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Vincent Millay's poetry to music, featuring vocalist Prudence Johnson. She has composed numerous jazz pieces, most notably for Pete Whitman's Xtet, Four Voices String Quartet, JAZZAX Saxophone Quartet, Karrin Allyson, and has set Edna St.
Her works were recently performed by the St. Her recordings have received such praise as "stunningly fresh" from JazzTimes and "in a word, outstanding" from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Recent projects include choral works for both the Great River Chorale and VocalEssence. With five CDs under her own name, and many more as a "side–man", she has recorded with some of the best jazz musicians in the region. Laura Caviani is a veteran of two decades of performing, recording and composing. Albright strives to enable his students to become not just masters of their instrument, but whole artists, at ease in multiple genres and unafraid to tap into their individual creative potential. His students adhere to traditional methods of trombone study and also explore composition, improvisation, and vocalization in their lessons. Trombonist Tim Albright enjoys a diverse career as an internationally recognized chamber musician, jazz artist, soloist and educator. He joined the Lawrence faculty in 2016, and was previously on faculty at State University of New York at Purchase and the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Equally at home as a performer of classical, jazz and pop music, Mr.
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