Ryan Carraher

Ryan Carraher is a 23-year old guitarist, composer and educator with a unique improvisational and compositional approach. He has a degree in guitar performance from the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is also the recipient of the Berklee guitar department achievement award.Ryan started his musical journey at the age of eleven, and two years later began playing live in the northern New Jersey and New York scenes where he composed and performed jazz, fusion, rock, metal, classical and electronic music. His goal is to create honest, contemporary sounds that are illuminating, captivating and recreate the massive epiphany one experiences when hearing music for the first time.He released his debut album “Vocturnal” to critical acclaim.“An artist who is constantly adventuring into music’s wildest spaces, Ryan has managed to craft a unique improvisational and compositional sound, and now, he s unleashed this sound onto the world in his debut album, Vocturnal .” – Anthem Reviews“Definitely someone to watch, Carraher has made a real statement with ‘Vocturnal’; there is surely much more music to come from this highly talented player and composer.” –Budd Kopman All About Jazz.com