Ali Ryerson
Ali has recorded and/or performed with jazz greats such as Red Rodney, Roy Haynes, Kenny Barron, Frank Wess, Hubert Laws, Stephane Grappelli, Harold Danko, Art Farmer, Mike Mainieri, Joe Beck, and Gene Bertoncini, as well as a guest appearance with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. She has also performed with classical artists Julius Baker, Luciano Pavarotti (as principal flutist with the Monterey Bay Orch.),
and harpsichordist Anthony Newman. Ali was musical director of the Hudson River Regional Jazz Festival (2001-’04), Jazz Chair and Low Flutes Chair for the National Flute Association, and founder of the NFA Jazz Flute Big Band. As an educator and author, Ryerson published the widely acclaimed Jazz Flute Practice Method, and conducts master classes worldwide, including her longstanding annual masterclass at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel Valley, CA. Ali has an online jazz flute masterclass series, presented by Lessonface in NYC, and a Jazz Flute Masterclass DVD, also produced by Lessonface. As a composer, Ryerson’s flute works have been performed internationally. The Theodore Presser Co. has invited Ms. Ryerson to join their catalogue of composers, with the publication of several new works. And in Germany, Edition Kossack is adding Ryerson to their catalogue in 2020, beginning with a book of jazz flute duets.
Ryerson’s most recent invitations as guest artist include the Galway Flute Festival in Switzerland, Rochester Jazz Festival, International Flute Festival of Lima, Peru, 60 the Monterey Jazz Festival, New York Flute Club, the International Low Flute Festival, International Flute Festival in the Netherlands, NYU, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Ohio University, Florida and MidAtlantic Flute conventions, the Chicago Flute Fair, the 2019 Japan Flute Convention and the 2021 International Low Flute Festival in Japan, La Côte Suisse Festival 2021, Master Teacher Workshop for Flute at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Ms. Ryerson will be the NFA (National Flute Association) program chair for the NFA convention in 2023 in Phoenix, AZ.
Ali studied with Harold Bennett and John Wion, and is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music. Ms. Ryerson is a Gemeinhardt Artist with an Autograph Series of flutes by Gemeinhardt Musical Instruments.
