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Phillip Ramey (b. Elmhurst, Illinois, United States, September 12, 1939) is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music.
He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago. He later studied composition with Jack Beeson at Columbia University (1962-65)
Ramey has had professional associations with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, William Schuman, David Diamond and Vladimir Horowitz. For many years, he was a close friends and a neighbor of Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco.
Ramey is the composer of orchestral works including three piano concertos, chamber music, and many works for solo piano, among them six sonatas. In 1993 he was commissioned to compose his Concerto for Horn and Strings for Philip Myers and the New York Philharmonic, in celebration of that orchestra's 150th anniversary.
He is the author of several hundred liner notes and interviews with American composers, and served from 1977 to 1993 as the annotator and Program Editor for the New York Philharmonic. He is also the author of Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time, which received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography.
In 2008 Ramey completed his autobiography and also wrote a novella commissioned by Filmgalerie 451, Berlin, which is scheduled to be filmed in Morocco in late 2009.
Compositions
- 1968 - Commentaries, for flute and piano
- 1969-72 - Piano Fantasy
- 1972 - Leningrad Rag, for piano
- 1984 - Idyll, for flute and piano
- 1987-88 - Piano Sonata No. 4
- 1989 - Piano Sonata No. 5 (For the Left Hand)
- 1994 - Color Etudes, for piano
- 2008 - J.F.K, Oration for Speaker and Orchestra
Recordings
- 1975 - Carlos, Wendy. Wendy Carlos, By Request. LP. Columbia. Re-released on enhanced CD in 2003 by East Side Digital (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Performed by Wendy Carlos, synthesizer; with Phillip Ramey, piano (4th and 5th works: Dialogues for piano and two loudspeakers and Episodes for piano).
- 2006 - Piano Music, 1961-2003. Stephen Gosling, piano. CD. Toccata Classics.
- 2008 - Piano Music, Volume Two: 1966-2007. Mirian Conti, piano. CD. Toccata Classics.
Books
- Ramey, Phillip (2005). Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time. Lives in Music series, no. 8. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, in association with Library of Congress.
External links
- Interview with Phillip Ramey about Irving Fine biography
- Paul Bowles memoir
- Phillip Ramey page from New Music Jukebox site