Patricia Ryan is the cellist of the Artaria String Quartet and faculty at Artaria Chamber Music School and Stringwood Chamber Music Festival. She teaches at Walker|West Music Academy, is a core member of the Houston-based ensemble KINETIC, a member of 10th Wave Chamber Collective and Delphia Cello Quartet. Ms. Ryan has completed a second Masters of Music at Rice University Shepherd School of Music on full tuition scholarship, an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music and a Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors of Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music on full scholarship. Ms. Ryan is the host of the podcast Haydn Behind the Music Stand, where she interviews classical musicians on their careers and inspirations outside the field.

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Ms. Ryan performs on a 1976 Gio Batta Morassi cello and a 1988 Roger Zabinski bow.