Ryan Lindveit (lind-vite) is a composer who takes inspiration from nature, art, science, technology, and personal experience in order to craft colorful and emotionally vivid musical journeys. His catalog includes works for orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensembles, soloists, voice, electronics, and visual media, and Lindveit enjoys collaborating with many different types of musicians, from young students to established professionals. 

His works have been commissioned and performed by several distinguished ensembles and musicians including the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Akropolis Reed Quintet, “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band, the U.S. Navy Concert Band, the New York Youth Symphony, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, and the wind ensembles at dozens of universities across the country. Ryan also composed the score for the four-part, Sam Elliott-narrated docuseries Honor Guard released on Amazon Prime. 
Lindveit is a recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, BMI Student Composer Award and various honors from the National Band Association, Symphony in C, Tribeca New Music, and the Texas Music Educators Association, among others. His works have appeared at many festivals and conferences including the Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, College Band Directors National Association Conferences (national and regional), Mizzou International Composers Festival, American Composers Orchestra Earshot New Music Readings, Next Festival of Emerging Artists, Red Note New Music Festival, the International Young Composers Meeting (Apeldoorn, NL), Singapore International Band Festival, Penn State International New Music Festival, and Sacramento State Festival of New American Music. Lindveit also won both the New Music for Orchestra and New Music for Wind Ensemble competitions at the University of Southern California. 

A committed educator, he has taught composition, music theory, orchestration, film music, and music technology privately and at the collegiate level. He currently serves on the faculty of the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as Assistant Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Composition. Lindveit is grateful for his music teachers in the public school system in Texas and to his mentors at the University of Southern California (BM), Yale University (MM, MMA), and the University of Michigan (DMA). In addition, he earned the Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy from the University of Michigan. At USC, he was selected as Salutatorian for the class of 2016 and named an Outstanding Graduate from the Thornton School of Music. His past teachers include Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, Andrew Norman, Christopher Theofanidis, David Lang, Ted Hearne, ​Martin Bresnick, Bright Sheng, and Donald Crockett. 

Find out more about Lindveit's works here.