Ryan Bell McAdams (born March 16, 1982) is an American conductor.
Career
in 2006, he received a Fulbright Grant for Stockholm, Sweden, where he spent the year serving as Apprentice Conductor to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, studying and traveling with then-Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert. In the spring of 2007, he was invited by Lorin Maazel to create the post of Apprentice Conductor for the Chateauville Foundation at the Maazel Estate in Virginia. As a result of the Aspen-Glimmerglass Prize, he served as Assistant Conductor for Glimmerglass Opera's 2007 season.
In the summer of 2010, he became the first-ever recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Emerging Conductor Award, a $10,000 prize given by the Solti Foundation in Chicago.[1]
From 2007-2012, he served as the 15th Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony. He is currently Principal Conductor of Crash Ensemble, Ireland's foremost contemporary music ensemble.
McAdams is managed exclusively by Keynote Artists Management.
Awards and Scholarships
Sir Georg Solti Emerging Conductor Award, Solti Foundation, 2010 (inaugural recipient)
Fulbright Grant, Sweden, 2007
Aspen-Glimmerglass Prize for Opera and Vocal Conducting (inaugural recipient)
Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship, Juilliard School