Hi! My name’s Greg and I’m a singer, multi instrumentalist and creative facilitator born in Newport, South Wales. I write instrumental piano music, write and perform upbeat folk music and run creative sound workshops with young people.

I have composed for film and tv projects, played live shows across the UK and USA, lead a creative education project as digital artist in residence at Tate, made a language inventor with Shakespeare’s Globe and remixed the London Symphony Orchestra’s string section with the help of 300 children.

I have released 3 solo piano albums and several singles as a singer-songwriter.

As a singer and producer I won “Best Acoustic Act” at the Download Music Awards and spent two weeks at number 1 on the International Independent Charts with my first single. I have had multiple plays on BBC Radio and was featured as BBC Introducing’s ‘Artist of The Week’. As a pianist, I have won 7 independent music awards and showcased my piano compositions at the Grammy Museum in LA.

Immediately forgetting why I walked into a room is a daily occurrence.

Anyway, enough about me…

I divide the majority of my time between the following things:

• Writing classical piano music. (‘Mountain Rain’ would be a good place to start listening).
• Writing music for film.

Writing and recording pop, country, folk and acoustic music for both myself and other musicians (check out ‘Memphis Time’ to hear what I’m on about).

Getting bored and doing ridiculous alternative covers of the unlikeliest songs. (James Blunt, Meatloaf and and Train all feature!)

As a result of this, people often get a bit scared when they venture over to my Soundcloud page looking for some calming piano music and suddenly stumble upon an folk-pop cover of Meatloaf’s ‘Bat Out Of Hell’.

Luckily I have organised some samples of all my musical ventures into four easily digestible playlists!

15 years experience playing, composing, recording and performing for piano.

10 years experience playing and performing harp in various professional settings.

Facilitated creative projects with over 4000 learners in over 60 schools across Wales

Proficient in French and Spanish language.

Novice in British Sign Language and Welsh language.

BA (Hons) Creative Sound and Music – University Of South Wales

BA (Hons) French and Linguistics – University of York

Level 2 certificate in British Sign Language

Welsh Mynediad 2

A levels in English Literature (A), French (A), History (A) and Drama and Theatre Studies (

7 IMC Music awards 2016 including special Artist of the year award

Named ‘Act Of The Month’ by BBC Introducing in March 2016.

Download Music Award 2012: won for “Best Acoustic Act”

Download Music Award 2012: nominated for “Best Single”

Download Music Award 2012: nominated for “Best Newcomer”

Four weeks at number 1 on the International Independent Charts

Semi-Finalist in UK Songwriting Competition​

Works and Essays on classical music and popular music culture published in several international publications including ‘Musical Opinion’ and BBC Music magazine.

The Wait (2010) – Director: Richard J Moir

Echoing Green (2011) – Director: Richard J Moir – Last Gunshot Productions

A Winter Garden (2012) – Animation, Produced and Written by Greg Ryan (myself) and Christoph Brehme – Piopictures.

The Woman In Red (2012) – Director Josh Williams – Sky ReachProductions

Then We Are Together (2012) – Director: Richard J Moir – Last Gunshot Productions

Time (2013) – Director: Rob Horwitz, Producers: Craig Nachsin, Rob Horwitz & Leilani Goode

The Home Guard (2013) – Director Mac Nixon, Producer: Charlotte Covell