Ryan Collis, born (2004) in Lincolnshire, is a Bachelor of Music (Honours) student at London's Royal College of Music, in Composition and second-study Piano. He is currently studying under professors Kenneth Hesketh, William Mival, and Kathryn Sturrock, and has additionally benefitted from individual sessions with composers Dani Howard, Judith Weir,  Dr. Christopher Fox, and recently participated in a masterclass with Mark-Anthony Turnage. He has also had works premiered at St. Anne's College Oxford, St James Church Piccadilly, and St James Church Sussex Gardens. 

In 2024, he won the prestigious National Centre for Early Music Young Composer Award in collaboration with BBC Radio 3, with his work "Lux Divinae". The piece was premiered by The Tallis Scholars at Saffron Hall (Saffron Walden), which was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show. 

At the Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2024, he received a premiere during the Young Composers Workshop concert of a work for soprano and piano, benefitting from a 1-1 with Prof. Ewan Campbell at Churchill College, Cambridge. He also received a premiere at the RCM Keyboard Festival 2025 of his work "Prose.'

He is an active member of the Kensington Chamber Choir, he sings as a tenor. 

His premiere of "morning campfire on a mountain lake" was performed by the New Light Collective as part of a New Composers concert at St James Piccadilly in association with the Royal College of Music on 26 April, 2025. He was also shortlisted for the Wooler Arts Composers' Competition 2025 which was supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation, to allow a workshop of his work "Crystalline Shadows" for horn in F and piano.

Upon leaving Spalding Grammar School, he was honoured to be a recipient of the William Edward Munson Cup for Music. He regularly practices and improvises using the church organ at Spalding Parish of St. Nicholas & St. Mary. In 2022, he completed his ABRSM Grade 8 in Piano with Merit, studying under Leda Jones. Other studies include Jazz Piano with the renowned jazz keyboardist Josh Mitchell-Rayner.

In the 2024–2025 academic year, Ryan is privileged and excited to be receiving an Orchestral Workshop with Mark-Anthony Turnage, and studying Orchestration & Transcription under Alison Kay. He has also had the opportunity to attend masterclasses and lectures at the Royal College of Music presented by composers including: Colin Alexander, Andrew Toovey, Joe Hisaishi, and Michael Finnissy. 

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