American tenor, Ryan Rowe, is a masters student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he is pursuing a M.M. in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of mezzo-soprano, Adriana Zabala. In 2018, Ryan graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Music (studying voice with Dr. Eugene Galvin). While at UNC, Ryan worked with and coached undergraduate singers and ensembles, as well as professors, on choral, art song, and operatic repertoire from the Russian musical canon. Also during his undergraduate studies, Ryan was awarded a Mayo Award for undergraduate research in music, which took him to Ghenady Mierson's Russian Opera Workshop and a Russian diction course at Jackdaws Educational Trust, where he studied with Alexandre Nauomenko of the Royal Opera House. His operatic roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Oronte (Alcina), Tenor Soloist (The Fairy-Queen), Nireno (Giulio Cesare), Le prince (Massenet's Cendrillon), Iskra (Mazeppa), the Crow (King's The Snow Queen), and Barigoule (Viardot's Cendrillon).

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Ryan has studied Russian and Polish and has studied and lived extensively in Eastern Europe. In 2014, Ryan studied Russian for a summer in Chișinău, Moldova as a recipient of the State Department's prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship. During the summer of 2017, Ryan received a Burch Fellowship to work as a research assistant recording oral histories and folk music of villages in the Irkutsk region of Russia and Brest region of Belarus with Dr. Yelena Minyonok of the Gorky Institute of World Literatures. That following summer, Ryan studied Polish language and culture at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin on a Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Ryan will be pursuing a postgraduate diploma in Vocal Studies at the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland with support from the Kosciuszko Foundation, NAWA, Alexander Dubcek Fund (UMN), and the Judd Fellowship (UMN).

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As a strong proponent of art song and intercultural dialogue, Ryan started Slavic Art Song Project to serve as a resource for artists looking to learn more about Slavic vocal music, lyric diction, literary movements, and creative artists. SASP aims to help disseminate language guides, translations, and IPA transcriptions to encourage the performance of lesser-known works, while also providing a historical context of the documented repertoire for program notes. By providing these resources, SASP hopes to make these repertoires and languages more approachable for non-native speakers.