Sound and Music

Troy Ramos was born in BC, Michigan in 1975 and graduated from Western Michigan University in 2004, where he studied piano with Silvia Roederer, voice with Monica Griffin and composition with Karen Olsen. He Then moved to England, where he continued his compositional studies at the University of York and received an MA in Music in 2008. While at York he studied with the distinguished composer and John Cage-scholar William Brooks.

In September of 2010 he will be the featured composer by the ensemble Accessible Contemporary Music in Chicago. In July of 2010 his two works "Work in Four Parts" and "Two Pieces" will be recorded for the first time in Chicago. In 2005 his work "Huron", from his Orchestral Set no. 1, was selected by ERM Media to appear on a future volume of its Masterworks of the New Era series, which features a recording by the Kiev Philharmonic under conductor Robert Ian Winstin.

He has been a member of the American Music Centre since 2003, and is also a member of Accessible Contemporary Music of Chicago, the National Composers Alliance USA and Cascadia Composers. Currently, Mr. Ramos is back on the west coast of the U.S. working on recordings and performances.