Interview recorded on 30 December 2022

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Bookings open soon for Tony's next concert with Resonance Ensemble - ​Shall We Dance - on 26 November  -  a programme of favourite classics that we don't hear often enough in live concerts. Featuring charasmatic violin soloist Fiona Pears.

On 17 September Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Confluence, a programme of 20th century Russian and American works music, including Shostakovich's extraordinary Symphony No. 9 and as selection of Aaron Copland's Old American Songs with soprano soloist Helen Charlton.

On 25 June Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Danzón, a programme of exotic and colourful music, full of captivating rhythms and ear-catching melodies, including Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche with saxophone soloist Mark Walton.

In his latest blog post (Troubleshooter) Tony asks "if Stuff’s review of NZ Opera’s The Unruly Tourists is deliberately offensive, or is it just sloppy journalism? Can we no longer expect genuinely informed, considered, and knowledgeable evaluation of the performing arts from some of our mainstream media?"

Tony Conducted Resonance Ensemble on 26 March 2023 at The Piano in a programme titled Outliers. And Resonance Ensemble's final 2022 concert A Tuba Comes to Town on 4 December included Tony's Tuba Concerto; and what an exciting and spectacular performance it received from both the orchesta and tuba soloist Thomas Allely. Watch the performance on Tony's YouTube channel. And listen to the composer Tony Ryan and soloist Thomas Allely discuss the coming first performance of the concerto on RNZ National.
Watch this space for Resonance Ensemble's next concert on 26 November
  • 17 September 2023: Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Confluence - Music by Shostakovich, Copland, Barber and Rachmaninov
  • 31 August 2023: Tony conducted the CSM Sinfonia at the Aurora Festival - Music by Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Stavinsky and Márquez.
  • 19 August 2023: Tony conducted trhe CSM Sinfonia orchestra in music by Prokofiev and Stravinsky
  • 25 June 2023: Tony conducted Resonance in Danzón. Music by Khachaturian, Britten, Ginastera, Milhaud, Benjamin & Márquez. ​
  • 17 June 2023: Tony conducted his CSM Sinfonia orchestra in music by Khachaturian, Gershwin and Márquez. 
  • 26 March 2023: Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Outliers. Music by Rossini, Gounod, Ponchielli and Beethoven
  • 4 December 2022: Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in A Tuba Comes to Town (music by Nicolai, Grieg, Sibelius and Ryan) 
  • 10 Dec: Tony's Sinfonia orchestra ended a busy year with his own Linwood March along with music by Tchaikovsky & Bizet
  • 19 November: Tony conducted his CSM Sinfonia Orchestra in music by Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns
  • 1 - 4 November: Tony conducted the Chch Schools Festival Symphony Orchestra at the Christchurch Town Hall (Photos below)
  • 25 Sept: Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Homelands (music by Britten, Rossini, Grieg and Smetana) at The Piano
  • 3 Sept: The CSM Sinfonia presented a Flashmob event at two large Christchurch shopping malls on 3 September
  • 26 June: Tony conducted Resonance Ensemble in Myths and Legends (music by Dvořák and Prokofiev) at The Piano
  • In April Tony conducted CSM Sinfonia at the Christchurch Town Hall in his Linwood March and Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March
  • On 4 March 2022 Tony presented his ideas on Politics in Music to the U3A Arts Centre group
  • Tony's latest reviews can be found on Theatreview, The Press (Stuff) and on the Christopher's Classics website 
Below: Sinfonia warms up before their concert at The Charles Luney Auditiorium on 19 August
Below: Resonance Ensemble warms up before their Danzón concert at The Piano on 25 June to a full house!
Below: Resonance Ensemble rehearses with saxophone soloist Mark Walton for this Sunday's Danzón concert at The Piano
Below: Resonance Ensemble presented A Tuba Comes to Town on 4 December at The Piano in Christchurch. 
The highlight of this programme was the premiere of Tony's Tuba Concerto
​with soloist Thomas Allely, Principal Tuba of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Below: A few pictures from CSM’s final event for 2022
Tony conducts the CSM Intermediate Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia in music from the fifteenth century to the twenty first
Below: Tony conducts the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
​for its hugely successful performances at the Christchurch Town Hall on 1-4 November 2022
Below: Tony's CSM Sinfonia presented a Flashmob at two Christchurch Shopping Centres (Merivale and Northlands) on 3 September 2022