Maxine Ramey

In addition to teaching clarinet and coaching chamber music, she is clarinetist with resident faculty ensembles such as the Montana Woodwind Trio and the Sapphire Trio, and has performed as principal clarinet and as a concerto artist with orchestras in Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Arkansas and Michigan. Washington Post reviews call her performances "Refreshing, fluid and idiomatic". the Albuquerque Journal states “…she demonstrates extraordinary performing skills”

Maxine Ramey has been a featured guest artist at the 1999 Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, the 1999 and 2002 Montevallo Clarinet Festival, with the Ramey Trio at International Double Reed Society conferences in 1991 (Baltimore), 1992 (Frankfurt, Germany), and 1997 (Phoenix), and the 1998 and 2003 Northern Plains Clarinet Symposium, The 1999 and 2002 Michigan Contemporary Clarinet Festival and the 2002 Clarinet Celebration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has performed solo and chamber recitals across the United States at university guest artist series and community concert events. She performed as a featured artist at the Southeastern Clarinet Festival in Louisiana in May, 2003, and the Eastern Kentucky University Clarinet Festival in April of 2003. In August of 2003 the Montana Woodwind Trio will present a recital at the National Flute Association conferenc! e in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Maxine Ramey regularly hosts and performs at the Montana/IdahoClarinet Festival. Reports and reviews of this festival appear each year in the THE CLARINET. Ms. Ramey is an advocate of new music and regularly programs the music of the late 20th century and 21st century on her recitals. As Solo/Principal Clarinet with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, she premiered new works by Jean Francaix, Jacques Casterede and Ivan Tcherepnine during the re-lighting ceremonies at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. U of M's Sapphire Trio champions the newly commissioned works by the renowned Verdehr Trio. Ms. Ramey collaborated with Los Angeles Times Writer Mary Platt in writing the cover story celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Verdehr Trio in the 25th Anniversary Issues of THE CLARINET chronicling the life and work of the legend! ary Elsa and Walter Verdehr.

She earned her Bachelor of Music from Arizona State University and continued her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree work at Michigan State University. Her teachers include Elsa Ludewig Verdehr, Keith Stein, Frank Ell, Ronald DeKant , and Fred Ormand.. Maxine Ramey is listed on the International Artist Roster of Buffet Clarinets.