Ryan Behan

Ryan Behan, Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at the University of Indianapolis, has performed throughout the US, in Europe and China, with radio broadcasts on ORF (Austria), BBC, and NPR. Recent performance highlights include: concerto soloist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Franz Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage: Suisse, recital appearances with the Indianapolis Quartet, and with sopranos Sumi Jo at the Mozarteum and Jolana Slavíková at the Salzburg Festival. Dr. Behan is Co-Director of the Franz Liszt International Piano Festival and Competition (OH), President of the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Liszt Society, is active as a competition adjudicator, and presents master classes, concerts, and guest lectures throughout the US and abroad.

In the 2025/26 season he will tour Hungary and Austria, and perform a solo recital at the Liszt Academy. He has lectured and performed at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg on the piano works of US composers, and technical and artistic approaches to the music of Franz Liszt. At the Mozarteum International Summer Academy he has served as Piano Instructor for the Lied classes of baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, and coached chamber music alongside Heinrich Schiff, Zakhar Bron, Michael Frischenschlager, and Umberto Clerici, as well as Lied with opera legend Grace Bumbry. In 2018 recorded the album l’adieu with mezzo-soprano Katherine Rohrer of songs by Louis Aubert, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann on Blue Griffin Recording, and in 2024 he released a solo album of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage – Première années: Suisse. He holds degrees from Bowling Green State University, the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, and The Ohio State University, was a student of Jerome Rose, Imre Rohmann, Dr. Caroline Hong, and also studied with Leslie Howard at the International Keyboard Institute in NYC and James Tocco in Cincinnati.

Dr. Ryan Behan is a Steinway Artist.