Wes Ramsay

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Location Burns, TN, United States
Introduction An alumnus of the University of Louisville, the Aspen Music Festival and the New College Music Festival, Wes Ramsay has built a career as performing, academic and business musician, Currently, Wes serves as Representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), Wes is an active member of ACDA, International Trombone Association, American Guild of Organists, and is both a composer and publisher member of ASCAP. Recent composition projects have resulted from his collaboration with Tim Sharp, Executive Director of American Choral Directors Association. Leonardo’s Riddle, commissioned by Tim for premier at the 2009 ACDA National Convention, is based on the only extant fragment of music composed by Leonardo da Vinci. 2011 saw the completion of Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Mass in collaboration with Tim Sharp, with its premiere performance by Chor Anno in Washington State in September of that year. The piece is scheduled for performances throughout the United States, with performances scheduled for Ireland and the UK in December 2013.
Interests Golf, gardening, history, baseball, soccer
Favorite Movies Renaissance Man, Blazing Saddles, Foyle's War, Bull Durham, A Man For All Ages, Searching For Richard, Tootsie, On Golden Pond, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley's People, Tin Cup
Favorite Music Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Count Basie, King's Singers, Steely Dan, Trombone Shorty, The American Songbook
Favorite Books A Small Town in Germany, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (all John LeCarre titles), The Money Game ('Adam Smith'), The End of Christendom (Muggeridge). Currently reading: The Beechers--An American Family in the 19th Century, American Muse (Polisi), The Cousins' Wars (Phillips), Andrew Carnegie (Nasaw)