Kolodziej

Dr. Ryan Kolodziej is enjoying a varied music career that has included solo and collaborative performances, accompanying nationally acclaimed amateur and university choirs, and individual instruction and group courses at the pre-college and university level. His passion for collaboration fuels his desire to work in music education.

He currently teaches piano at L’École de musique Vincent-d’Indy and the Conservatoire de Collège Stanislas in Outremont, Montreal. At the post-secondary level, he has taught as a chargé de cours at l'Université de Montréal, as well as a course instructor at the University of Alberta. His students have enjoyed much success including top prizes at competitions and several First Class Honours in Royal Conservatory of Music exams. He is also in demand as an adjudicator for competitions and examiner for music exams.

As a pianist, Ryan has performed in Canada and Europe. He has been fortunate to receive multiple grants that supported his artistic achievements from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) research grant award for his work on Liszt/Schubert arrangements and transcriptions.

Ryan is also the Executive and Artistic Director of Primo Music Association, a not-for-profit that runs Centric MusicFest, a summer classical and art music festival in Alberta, and has enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate and perform with Canadian musicians from coast to coast.

His belief that access to high-quality music education is crucial for artistic and cognitive development motivates his dedication to teaching.

When he is not doing music-related activities, Ryan enjoys gardening, hiking, and building and endlessly customizing computers or any other related technology that he can get his hands on.