Ramon Ricker composer / arranger

Ramon "Ray" Ricker ist ein klassischer und Jazz-Interpret, Musikpädagoge, Komponist und Arrangeur.

Ricker war Professor für Saxophon, Direktor des Institute for Music Leadership und Senior Associate Dean für professionelle Studien an der Eastman School of Music der Universität von Rochester. Er ist emeritierter Professor für Saxophon und interimistischer Direktor des School for Music Leadership. Neben einer Karriere als darstellender Künstler und Studiolehrer war er Direktor des Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Programms, ist Chefredakteur von Polyphonic.org und war ein Affiliate Faculty: Jazz Studies und zeitgenössische Medien.

Als leitender Administrator bei Eastman half Ricker Eastman's Institute for Music Leadership zu gründen, mit seinem "Arts Leadership Curriculum", das Kurse in Entrepreneurship, Karrieren, Leadership, Performance, zeitgenössischen Orchesterproblemen und der Verletzungsprävention und -rehabilitation von Musikern anbietet; und sein Zentrum für Musikinnovation. Im September 2013 ehrte die Eastman School of Music Ricker als erstes Fakultätsmitglied, das in Anerkennung außerordentlicher Führung, Engagement, Service und Philanthropie die Dean's Medal erhielt.

Ramon "Ray" Ricker is a classical and jazz performer, music educator, composer and arranger.

Ricker was professor of saxophone, director of the Institute for Music Leadership and senior associate dean for professional studies at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester.[1] He is professor emeritus of saxophone and interim director of the school's Institute for Music Leadership. In addition to a career as a performing artist and studio teacher, he served as director of the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program, is editor-in-chief of Polyphonic.org, and was an affiliate faculty: jazz studies and contemporary media.

As a senior administrator at Eastman, Ricker helped found Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership,[2] with its arts leadership curriculum that offers courses in entrepreneurship, careers, leadership, performance, contemporary orchestral issues and musician’s injury prevention and rehabilitation; and its Center for Music Innovation. In September 2013, the Eastman School of Music honored Ricker as the first faculty member to receive the Dean’s Medal[3] in recognition of extraordinary leadership, dedication, service and philanthropy.