Australian-Filipino tenor Ryan O’Donnell completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. 

He has performed as a soloist in concerts, recitals, and operas. Recently he was awarded a full scholarship to represent the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the 2016 Estivo European Chamber Music Summer School in Verona, Italy, where he gave solo public concerts and worked with international coaches. In 2015 he completed a concert tour of northern NSW with associate artist David Miller AM with the Sydney Conservatorium New Northern Tour, performing as a soloist in concerts across Northern Regional NSW, Australia. Recent highlights include receiving the the 2017 Berlin Opera Academy Elizabeth Luxon Memorial Scholarship and the Robert Earl White Memorial Scholarship, being a finalist in the 2015 Elizabeth Todd Lieder Scholarship, along with performing as one of the Stars of Australian Opera at the 2015 and 2016 Carols in the Domain on live national television. He was a 2017 Pacific Opera Sponsored Young Artist.

2018 sees Ryan performing as the Tamino/Papageno swing for Opera Australia’s touring school’s production of The Magic Flute. Other operatic roles include Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) for Berlin Opera Academy and the Sydney Conservatorium, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte – cover) for the Sydney Conservatorium, Acis (Acis and Galatea) for the Peninsula Summer Music Festival, Mr Grey in the Australian premiere of Joseph Horowitz’s chamber opera Gentleman’s Island for Operantics, and Dr Graham (The English Eccentrics) for the Sydney Conservatorium. Concert engagements as a soloist include the Bach Magnificat (Manly Warringah Choir and Orchestra), Handel’s Messiah (St Matthews Singers, New Norfolk, Tasmania), Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge (Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra), Schubert’s Mass in G (Manly Warringah Choir and Orchestra), and Britten’s St Nicholas (Willoughby Symphony Choir and Orchestra).

Ryan has also performed principal roles across  other genres, including Ralph Rackstraw (HMS Pinafore), John Howard (Keating! The Musical), The Beast (Beauty and the Beast) and Crisostomo Ibarra in workshops for a new musical adaptation of Noli me Tangere.