University Lecture Series Grant
Festival Choir Repertoire:
The Woman to This Hour
https://www.musicspoke.com/downloads/the-woman-to-this-hour/
The Rising
https://www.musicspoke.com/downloads/rising/
Truth
https://musicspoke.com/dodei wnloads/truth
Dr. Andrea Ramsey enjoys an international presence as a composer, conductor, scholar, and music educator. Her teaching experiences range from work with adolescent and children's voices to high school and collegiate voices. She enjoys regular opportunities to conduct all-state and divisional level honor choirs, festival events at Carnegie Hall, and serves as a principal conductor for the Pacific International Young Women's Choral Festival in Eugene, Oregon. Before leaping into full time composing and guest conducting, Andrea held positions in music education and conducting at The Ohio State University and the University of Colorado, respectively.
An ASCAPlus award-winning composer, Andrea believes strongly in the creation of new works. Her compositions are available with traditional publishers and also through MusicSpoke, a digital sheetmusic marketplace. She enjoys residency collaborations with ensembles and festival choirs, some of which have included: the Allegro Choirs of Kansas City, Ithaca College, and the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans.
As a scholar, she has presented for state, divisional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the 6th Annual Symposium on Sociology in Music Education, as well as The Phenomenon Singing Symposium in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. She has co-authored articles published in the Choral Journal, as well as the Journal of Research in Music Education. A native of Arkansas, she has experienced in her own life the power of music to provide a sense of community, better understanding of our humanity, and rich opportunities for self-discovery.
Learn more about Dr. Ramsey - https://www.andrearamsey.com
Guest Speaker
Barbara Y. Phillips was formerly a Ford Foundation Program Officer in the Peace and Social Justice Program responsible for grant-making nationally and globally related to women’s rights. Prior to joining the foundation, she was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Spaeth Fellow at Stanford Law School, and civil rights litigator for 18 years. Before attending law school, she was a community organizer in Mississippi and became lead plaintiff in several class actions challenging employment discrimination by Mississippi State agencies.
She is a member of the board of directors of Women’s Environment and Development Organization; Community Advisory Committee to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi; formerly board member of Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace, a partnership of 20 independent women’s rights organizations from the Global South and other social justice organizations and foundations. While partner in Rosen & Phillips, Phillips was appointed by the federal district court in 1987, to monitor compliance of the San Francisco Fire Department with court orders and a broad consent decree requiring institutional change to resolve claims of race and sex discrimination in hiring, promotions, and conditions of employment and resulting in the hiring of the first women firefighters.