Andrea Ramsey

Conductor, teacher and composer Dr. Andrea Ramsey serves as the associate director of choral studies and assistant professor of conducting at the University of Colorado Boulder. She conducts the University Choir and Women’s Chorus and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. Prior to her appointment at CU, she held an appointment in choral music education at The Ohio State University in Columbus. With a doctorate from Michigan State University, Dr. Ramsey studied conducting with Dr. David Rayl, Dr. Sandra Snow and Dr. Jonathan Reed. Prior to university teaching, Dr. Ramsey enjoyed considerable public school and children’s choir teaching experience.

An ASCAPlus award winning composer, Dr. Ramsey has over 80 works in print with publishers such as Hal Leonard, G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, Oxford University Press, Alliance, Santa Barbara, Walton, Colla Voce and Carl Fischer. More recently she has ventured into self-publishing through MusicSpoke. In demand for commissioned choral works, she also enjoys guest residencies with choirs and continues to serve as composer-in-residence to the Allegro Choirs of Kansas City where she has toured with the choirs to Austria and the Czech Republic (2008), and Italy (2011).

Dr. Ramsey is honored to guest conduct all-state and honor choruses and to present sessions of interest to conductors and music educators in the United States and Canada.  ngagements for this academic year include opportunities in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Hawaii, Indiana, Texas, Delaware, Kansas, Connecticut, California, Arkansas, Missouri and at Carnegie Hall in New York City.