Guest artist and alumnus Ryan Behan (DMA 2009) will perform Franz Liszt's Deuxième année: Italie.
This event is free and open to the public.
Ryan Behan, associate professor of Piano and director of Keyboard Studies at the University of Indianapolis, has performed throughout the US, in Europe and China, with radio broadcasts on ORF (Austria), BBC, and NPR. Performance highlights include appearing as concerto soloist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, recital appearances with the Indianapolis Quartet, and with sopranos Sumi Jo at the Mozarteum and Jolana Slavíková at the Salzburg Festival; in May 2026 he will perform Franz Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage: Italie at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy in Hungary.
Behan is co-director of the Franz Liszt International Piano Festival and Competition (Ohio), president of the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Liszt Society, is active as a competition adjudicator, and presents master classes, concerts, and guest lectures throughout the US and abroad. He has lectured and performed at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg on the piano works of US composers, and technical and artistic approaches to the music of Franz Liszt. At the Mozarteum International Summer Academy he has served as piano instructor for the Lied classes of baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, and coached chamber music alongside Heinrich Schiff, Zakhar Bron, Michael Frischenschlager, and Umberto Clerici, as well as Lied with opera legend Grace Bumbry. In 2018 he recorded the album l’adieu with mezzo-soprano Katherine Rohrer of songs by Louis Aubert, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann on Blue Griffin Recording; in 2024 he released a solo album of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage – Première années: Suisse. He holds degrees from Bowling Green State University, the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, and The Ohio State University; he was a student of Jerome Rose, Imre Rohmann, Caroline Hong; he also studied with Leslie Howard at the International Keyboard Institute in NYC, and James Tocco in Cincinnati.
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Getting Here
Two garage options:
Arps Garage (open to visitors M–F after 4 p.m. and on weekends) — located just north of the Timashev Music building.
- A good choice for events in the Timashev Recital Hall, just inside the north end of the building.
Ohio Union South Garage (open to visitors 24/7) — located just south of the Timashev Music building, next to the Ohio Union.
- A good choice for events in Weigel Auditorium, just inside the south end of the building, across from the Oval.
- The only choice for visitors M–F, before 4 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium is on the second floor, via a staircase in the south lobby.
- The elevator to Weigel Auditorium is in the back hallway, located behind the Music Commons.