PAMELA RYAN, Associate Professor of Viola and Coordinator of Strings, is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. She received the B.M. degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland and was awarded the Master of Arts in Performance from the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College and the D.M.A. degree at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. Ms. Ryan's teachers have included Paul Doktor, Karen Tuttle, and Masao Kawasaki, and she was a frequent performer in the masterclasses of Itzhak Perlman.

Ryan has taught at Bowling Green State University, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Brooklyn College and at the Aspen Music School. She has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, and Bowling Green String Quartet at Carnegie Hall and in Mexico City, at The Yellow Barn, Idyllwild, and Bowdoin Festivals, and as a winning soloist in the Aspen Concerto Competition.

She serves as principal violist of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and the Southwest Florida Symphony, is the past president of the Florida Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and served on the National Executive Board of the American Viola Society. She recently received the FSU University Teaching Award.