About PASP’s Founder

Ryan Rowe is an American tenor from Durham, North Carolina. As a speaker of Polish and Russian, Ryan works with singers at all levels on lyric diction in addition to private voice lessons. Throughout his academic career, he has pursued opportunities to study Slavic languages and cultures. As a result, Ryan has studied and worked in Moldova, Russia, Belarus, and Poland with support from the National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship (U.S. Dept. of State), Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (U.S. Dept. of Ed.), Burch Fellowship (UNC), Judd Fellowship (UMN) and the Kosciuszko Foundation. Ryan is also an active performer of opera, art song, chamber music, and new music. Selected roles include Oronte in Alcina, Mercure/Thespis in Platée, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Iskra in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa.

A current master’s student in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota, Ryan holds degrees from UNC Chapel Hill in Slavic Languages and Music (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and completed postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland. Previously, Ryan has worked as an Adjunct Voice Instructor at the College of St. Scholastica. Formative teachers include Dr. Ziemowit Wojtczak, Dr. Eugene Galvin, Prof. Adriana Zabala, and Patrick Terry. He currently is the Russian Lab Instructor and Resident Director of the Russian House at Macalester College.

Ryan created Polish Art Song Project following his postgraduate studies in Poland. As the first English-language digital resource for Polish art song repertoire, PASP seeks to promote the performance and study of Polish vocal literature by offering diction, repertoire, and historical resources.

When he is not singing or teaching, Ryan enjoys baking and working on fermentation projects, knitting, and hiking.