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Music Librarian & Seay Library Manager

Music Library

Ryan Seward is Music Librarian & Seay Library Manager at Colorado College, where he manages the collection, services, and personnel of the Albert Seay Library of Music and Art. Ryan also provides research support, programming, and library instruction for students and faculty in the performing arts disciplines of music, dance, and theatre; in addition to ensemble support for the fellows and faculty of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival.

Prior to joining Colorado College Libraries & Press, Ryan held positions at University of Northern Colorado's Howard M. Skinner Music Library, University of Colorado Boulder's Howard B. Waltz Music Library, and Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department. Ryan holds the MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce, and the MS in Library Science from University of North Texas. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.

In addition to his role at Seay Library, Ryan is a musician, composer, and artist. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.

Ryan has toured extensively across the United States—especially the Southwest and Great Plains—and has performed at Sine & Symbol Intermedia Arts Festival (Tucson, Arizona); Molten Plains Fest (Denton, Texas); High Desert Soundings (Wonder Valley, California); Tierras Sonidas (Marfa, Texas); and Re:Sound (Cleveland, Ohio). His work has most recently been performed by Galan Trio, TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells, and presented at Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado); CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Discreet Archive, Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, Sawyer Editions, and Sawyer Spaces.