Ryan Murray

Ryan Murray is a conductor scheduled to lead the Modesto Symphony Orchestra and Auburn Symphony across the 2026-27 season. His engagements span pops concerts, holiday programs, family concerts, film-with-orchestra screenings, and masterworks programs featuring Bernstein, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Berlioz, and Tchaikovsky. Listeners can expect him to move between popular, accessible programming and standard classical repertoire.

Audiences will hear Ryan Murray across a wide range of programming, from pops concerts built around country music and holiday favorites to full film screenings paired with live orchestral scoring, such as Star Wars: A New Hope. On the classical side, his Auburn Symphony masterworks programs pair well-loved staples, Bernstein's Candide overture, Vaughan Williams's Suite for Viola, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's song cycle Les Nuits d'été, and Tchaikovsky's final symphony, the "Pathétique." Listeners new to these works can expect Shostakovich's symphony to be leaner and more sardonic than a typical wartime piece, while the Tchaikovsky closes not with triumph but with a slow, quiet fade. The family concert and pops dates suggest a conductor comfortable moving between accessible, narrative-driven programming and standard orchestral repertoire, likely shaping each performance to fit the tone of the occasion, whether that is a picnic, a holiday sing-along, or a film screening.