Joyce A. Ramée

Affiliate Artist, viola

Phone: 253.879.3134
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Joyce A. Ramée, affiliate artist, received her BMus from the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, where she studied with Max Aronoff and Joseph de Pasquale.  While studying under a full fellowship at Tanglewood, Ms. Ramée performed under conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur.  Ms. Ramée is director and co- founder of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute.  Under Ms. Ramée's direction the Institute has successfully presented educational music programs since 1991, and currently presents the MAVI Festival & Aronoff Chamber Music Series at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington.  Currently a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra and the Auburn Symphony, Ms. Ramée has performed as soloist in major concertos with several area orchestras and in world premieres by composers Lawrence Ebert, Dell Wade and Daniel Ott.  Since 1987, Ms. Ramée has been an affiliate artist at Puget Sound teaching viola, chamber music, Music 397, and maintains a large community music studio of viola and violin students.  She was founder of the University's Community Chamber Music Program and its coordinator from 1987 - 2002.  Her students have won positions in the Detroit, Oregon and Phoenix Symphonies, and graduate assistantships and admissions at universities and conservatories nationwide.  "As a Puget Sound artist I enjoy the balance between students who are hoping for musical careers and those who play just for the love of it.  It is most interesting to work with the bright, inquisitive, and talented young people that Puget Sound continually attracts."