Regan Ryzuk

Regan Ryzuk is an American Composer and pianist. He studied with Robert Helps at Manhattan School of Music and attended the Juilliard School. Ryzuk's classical music studies then led to jazz studies with Jaki Byard and Sir Roland Hanna. Ryzuk began touring with various ballet companies - traveling through Europe and Latin America. The playing of dance classes improved his improvisational techniques and laid the groundwork for one of his greatest compositional works - “48 Preludes and Fugues.” This work was composed over the course of a year while in Switzerland. He has composed music for more than 500 television programs and films with such credits as Kissing Jessica Stein, Chasing Papi, The Night Listener, 60 Minutes and American Idol. He has recorded for The Wu Tang Clan, Russell Simmons and Quincy Jones, to name a few. Original theater credits include The Lodger, Joe’s Bar and seven full-length Grimm’s Fairy Tale musicals. His recent project of ten piano sonatas is contained in a 4 CD set . Other highlights include a Concerto For Two Pianos, a Piano Fantasy, Epi-Cycles Beyond The Kyper Belt as well several orchestral works. Equally at home in jazz settings, Ryzuk has played on dozens of jazz records. He has just finished his first piano concerto.