David Ryan

Davie is a graduate of both UCC (1st class honours degree in Music) and of Cork School of Music (1st class honours Masters in Performance). He has extensive experience both nationally and internationally as a touring and recording musician in a range of diverse genres including, pop, folk, jazz, rock, world and traditional music.

In 2015 he received an Individual Artist Bursary award from Cork City Council to undertake four weeks intensive masterclasses in New York with renowned drummers/educators Kendrick Scott, Billy Drummond, Clarence Penn and Nate Smith. Acts that he works with on a regular basis include The Hard Ground, The Niall McCabe Band, Jack O’ Rourke, Padraig Rynne’s Notify, Cormac McCarthy’s Cottage Evolution, The Paul Dunlea Group, John Blek, Anna Mitchell and Karen Underwood.

He has extensive experience as a recording artist and has worked with many renowned studio producers, including Grammy award winning Jay Joyce (Tragedy/Tragedy Studios, Nashville) in 2009, Kieran Byrne (Cauldron Studios, Dublin) 2011, 2012 & 2013, Christian Best (Monique Studios, Cork) 2013, 2014 & 2015, 2016 and John Fitzgerald (Lettercullum House Studios, West Cork), 2014 & 2015, 2016. He is also Senior Drum Tutor at the CIT Academy of Popular Music and at Music4Children.