Travis M. Ramsey holds degrees from the University of Southern Maine and Boston University. His music has been commissioned by bands, choruses, and orchestras throughout New England including the Wellesley (MA) Symphony Orchestra, ChoralART (Portland, ME), and the Bel Canto Chamber Singers (Lebanon, NH). Recent commissioned works include a setting of Nancy Tillman’s beloved children’s book On The Night You Were Born (ChoralART, 2016), Maginificat in A (Bel Canto, 2017), the concert band work based on a poem of John Updike TVO: Triumphant Voltage Overload (Cape Elizabeth High School, 2016), and music for Back to School, a documentary about one-room schoolhouses in small-town Vermont (Historic New England, 2015).
Travis’s work When the Stars of Morning Sang was the winner of ChoralART’s New England Carol Competition in 2018. His setting of Walt Whitman’s “A Song for Occupations” To Reach Them My Hand was featured as an ACDA/ChoralNet Silver Platter Award in 2015. Be With Me Still was a finalist in the Meistersingers 2010 choral composition contest; his Hush: a manger song was a finalist in the Hendrix College Carol Competition in 2016. Travis is an ASCAP member and five-time recipient of the ASCAPlus Award.
Current commissions include Brass Magnificat (commissioned by ChoralART and slated for premiere in 2019), SATB settings of Nancy Tillman’s Wherever You Are, My Love will Find You and Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and The Importance of Being Little (String Quartet No. 1). Travis splits his time between composing and teaching music in Norwich, Vermont. He is also a mentor for Music-COMP and an adjudicator for the Vermont All-State Composition Scholarship. Travis lives with his wife, children, cats, and approximately fourteen chickens in New Hampshire. For more information, visit www.tramseycomposer.com/