Ryan Suleiman (PhD, composition, ‘20) has joined the faculty at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. As part-time assistant professor in the composition department, he will be teaching classes on harmony and counterpoint.

Suleiman was born to Lebanese and Midwestern parents in California. His music engages with dreaming, the natural world, and the understated beauty of everyday life. His one-act chamber opera, Moon, Bride, Dogs, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gem” with “an aesthetic that is at once so strange and so accessible.” While his artistic interests vary, he seeks ways of conveying the simultaneity of beauty and dread that characterizes our times.

​Suleiman is a three-time finalist of the ASCAP Young Composer Awards and two-time winner of the FeNAM Student Composers Competition. His music has been performed at several festivals, including SICPP (Boston), June in Buffalo (NY), and the NANOworks Opera Workshop (Atlanta), among others. In addition, he has worked on commissions and collaborations on chamber, symphonic, and operatic works with numerous groups, including West Edge Opera, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Daedalus Quartet, Ensemble Mise-en, Symphony d’Oro, and Camerata Capistrano. His piano cycle, Under Moonlight, was recorded by Jai Jeffryes in his solo album, Amethyst, distributed by Naxos.

Recent projects include two short “sister” operas with writer Cristina Fríes, a Piano Concerto, and a work for socially distanced soprano and chamber ensemble that explores collective feelings of isolation.

Suleiman has held teaching positions at the Sacramento State School of Music and UC Davis, in addition to teaching privately. He currently resides in Boston with his partner and several furry animals. More information available at www.ryansuleiman.com.