Ryan Carraher, a guitarist, composer, and educator aged 24, has a unique compositional and improvisational style. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College in Boston, where he earned a degree as a guitarist performance. He was also awarded the Berklee achievement award for guitar department. He is currently pursuing his masters degree in composition at Tufts University. Ryan began his musical journey when he was eleven years old. Two years later, he started playing live in northern New Jersey and New York where he performed and composed jazz, fusion and classical music. His aim is to create authentic, contemporary sounds that are captivating, illuminating and recreate the feeling of profound joy one feels when listening to music for the first times. He has performed with many famous artists, including Jimmy Heath and Leslie West, Jimmy Heath and Grand Funk Railroad’s Pete Best and Joe Lynn Turner. He has performed as a soloist at many renowned venues, including the B.B Kings Blues Club in New York City, the Morristown Community Theater to a sell-out crowd of 1,200, the Highline Ballroom, and the Bergen PAC. He was a finalist in the MTNA 2016-17 competition award. He won the Eastern Division round and the state of Massachusetts. Ryan is an electronic musician who creates experimental music under the name “Flutes In a Vacuum”. In March 2016, he released “Vocturnal”, his first jazz/fusion album. He released his second, genre-traversing concept album, Obscure Sorrows, in March 2016.
