Faculty Member
Chris Ramos is currently serving as Director of Bands at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He conducts the UVU Wind Symphony and directs instrumental studies within the music education area. Prior to academia, Chris served as a band director at Dalat International School in Penang, Malaysia. He is also an active scholar working at the intersection of wind band studies, disability theory, and music education. He holds degrees from The Hartt School where he studied with Glen Adsit and Edward Cumming, the University of New Mexico where he studied with Eric Rombach-Kendall, and from Texas A&M University-Commerce where he studied with Phillip Clements, Luis Sanchez, and Mike Morrow. An avid supporter of new music, he has been part of several commissioning projects and has recorded with both the Naxos and Summit record labels. He is an active member in the College Band Directors National Association, Utah Music Educators Association, American Musicological Society, and National Association for Music Education.
Major: Instrumental Conducting
Major: Wind Conducting
Major: Piano Performance
Major: Music Education
Advanced Instrumental Literature and Methods, Spring 2025
Pep Band, Spring 2025
Pre-Service Student Teaching, Spring 2025
Private Lessons II, Spring 2025
Student Teaching Secondary, Spring 2025
Student Teaching Graduate Licensure, Spring 2025
Student Teaching Graduate Licensure, Spring 2025
Student Teaching Seminar, Spring 2025
Wind Symphony, Spring 2025
Two-year award offered to one of the band ensemble conductors from the summer season. Besides being a recognition of achievement it also offers the opportunity for future performances with the Staff and Festival Bands.
(from the organization)
The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings. Now in its fourteenth year, The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation. Information about the 2024-25 season of contests is now available and applications are being accepted, with extensions available by email request. (http://theamericanprize.org)
Grant to fund a student engagement and collaboration project on the revision and expansion of the Wind Symphony library.
Grant won to support guest artist residencies with the UVU Wind Symphony over the '24-'25 season.
