Boston-based pianist Marc Ryser is a founding member of Music-by-the-Sea, a festival and artists’ residency on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, also serving on the faculty of the festival’s mentoring program for young professionals. He has performed with distinguished artists, including cellists Paul Katz, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Anssi Karttunen, violists Steven Dann and Marcus Thompson, violinists, Ernst Kovacic, Marc Destrubé, and Peter Salaff, pianist Judith Gordon, and with the Lydian, New Zealand, and Borealis String Quartets.  He has appeared as a guest artist with Music from Salem (NY), Rockport Chamber Music Festival (MA), Boston Artists Ensemble, Rose Colored Glasses Chamber Ensemble, and with the Walden, MIT, Holy Cross, and Smith College Chamber Players. Among the highlights of his solo career are the first performance in Bulgaria of Bela Bartók’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Vratsa Philharmonic, and concert tours in Switzerland comprising solo and chamber music recitals, and concerto performances with the Sinfonietta de Lausanne. From 2003 to 2005 he served as senior artist and resident collaborative pianist at the Banff Centre, in Alberta, Canada.  He currently serves on the piano and chamber music faculty at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Smith College, and the Rivers School Conservatory, having also taught at Pomona College, Brandeis University, Drake University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.