An exciting and enthusiastic pianist, Donald Ryan has thrilled audiences across the U.S.A.   He performs ragtime on a regular basis, recently as an invited performing artist in 2005 and 2006 at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri.   He also did a one week-long series of school programs in Sedalia in 2006.

By the time Trinidad, West Indies, native Donald Ryan was 14, he had earned several honors from London's Trinity School of Music and was the pianist for a radio program that reached the entire Eastern Caribbean.   His mentor at Oral Roberts University was Andrzeq Wasowski.   He earned his Masters Degree at the University of Tulsa, where he studied with Aldo Mancinelli.   Mr. Ryan has won numerous awards for his classical repertory performances, but he is equally renowned for his improvisation and for his arrangements.   He has enjoyed enthusiastic responses from Carnegie Hall audiences and others across the United States and Europe.   He won the Madeyska Award at the 1975 Chopin competition in Warsaw where he made such an impression that he was asked to participate in a documentary on Chopin's life and to perform at the composer's birthplace.

Donald Ryan continues an active career in music as a concert and recording artist, composer, arranger, and as a faculty member at ORU.   He is the Musical Advisor on the Board of Directors for the Ragtime for Tulsa Foundation, Inc.