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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 friend and a neighbor of Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco. Virgil Thomson honored him with a musical portrait for piano titled "Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard"; it has been recorded by pianists Jacquelyn Helin〔(''Virgil Thomson: Portraits and Other Works'' (Jacquelyn Helin, pianist), at Amazon.com )〕 and Bennett Lerner,〔(''American Piano Music'' (Bennett Lerner, pianist), at ArkivMusic.com )〕 and is analyzed in Anthony Tommasini's book (''Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits'' ).〔(''Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits'' by Anthony Tommasini, at Amazon.com )〕 Ramey is the composer of orchestral works including three piano concertos, chamber music, and many works for solo piano, among them ten sonatas. In 1993 his ''Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra'', commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to celebrate its 150th Anniversary, was premiered by that orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with Philip Myers as soloist.〔(Works Commissioned by or Written for the New York Philharmonic )〕 On Nov. 14, 1985, ''Proclamation for Orchestra'', Ramey's orchestration of Copland's ''Proclamation for Piano'', received an unusual bi-coastal premiere: by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta〔(Nov. 14, 1985 in New York Philharmonic Digital Archives )〕 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. The New York Philharmonic concert was telecast as "Aaron Copland's 85th Birthday" (episode 61 of the ''Live from Lincoln Center'' telecasts).〔(GREAT PERFORMANCES: LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: AARON COPLAND'S 85TH BIRTHDAY, Paley Center for Media )〕〔(Past Telecasts of Live from Lincoln Center )〕 His music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, G. Schirmer, C. F. Peters, and Edward B. Marks, among other firms. Ramey 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.〔(39TH ANNUAL ASCAP DEEMS TAYLOR AWARDS ANNOUNCED )〕 Ramey appeared in the 1998 documentary (''Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles'' )〔(Full cast & crew of ''Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles'' at imdb.com )〕 and the 2000 documentary (''Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles'' ).〔(''Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles'' at imdb.com )〕 In 2010 he completed his autobiography, and he currently serves as Vice-President of (The Tcherepnin Society ).〔(The Tcherepnin Society website )〕 ==Compositions== (Selected, with some titles linked to recorded performances archived at YouTube.com) *1959 - Three Early Preludes for Piano *1960-63 - (Suite for Piano ) (revised 1988) *1960 - (Three Preludes for Solo Horn ) *1960 - Incantations for Piano *1961 - Piano Sonata No. 1 *1962 - (Sonata for Three Unaccompanied Timpani ) *1962 - Concert Suite for Piano and Small Orchestra (revised, reorchestrated and expanded 1984 as (Concert Suite for Piano and Orchestra )) *1962 - (Cat Songs for Soprano, Flute and Piano ) (text: T. S. Eliot) *1965 - Seven, They Are Seven: Incantation for Bass-Baritone and Orchestra (text: Konstantin Balmont) *1966 - Diversions for Piano *1966 - Piano Sonata No. 2 *1966 - Capriccio for Percussion *1967 - Epigrams for Piano, Book I *1967 - Orchestral Discourse *1967 - Night Music for Percussion *1968 - Piano Sonata No. 3 *1968 - (Harvard Bells, Soundpiece for Piano ) *1968 - Toccata Breva for Percussion *1968 - Commentaries for Flute and Piano *1969-71 - Piano Concerto No. 1 *1969-72 - (Piano Fantasy ) *1971 - (Suite for Violin and Piano ) *1972 - (Leningrad Rag (Mutations on Scott Joplin) for Piano ) *1974 - Concerto for Chamber Orchestra *1976 - Piano Concerto No. 2 *1977 - (Memorial (In Memoriam Alexander Tcherepnin) for Piano ) *1977 - (Arabesque for Solo Flute ) *1979 - (La Citadelle, Rhapsody for Oboe and Piano ) *1980 - A William Blake Trilogy for Soprano and Piano *1980 - Autumn Pastorale for Piano *1981/85 - (Cossack Variations for Piano ) *1981 - Fanfare-Sonata for Solo Trumpet *1982 - (Canzona for Piano ) *1983 - (Echoes for Piano ) *1982-86 - Moroccan Songs to Words of Paul Bowles for High Voice and Piano *1984 - Phantasm for Flute and Violin (or Two Violins) *1984 - (Concert Suite for Piano and Orchestra ) *1985 - (Proclamation for Orchestra ) (Orchestration of Aaron Copland's (Proclamation for Piano )) *1985 - (Capriccio (Improvisation on a Theme from Youth) for Piano ) *1986 - (Toccata No. 1 for Piano ) *1986 - (Epigrams for Piano, Book II ) *1987-88 - (Piano Sonata No. 4 ) *1987-93 - (Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra ) *1989 - (Piano Sonata No. 5 (For the Left Hand) ) *1989 - (Tangier Nocturne for Piano ) *1990 - (Toccata No. 2 for Piano ) *1990 - (Burlesque-Paraphrase on a Theme of Stephen Foster for Piano ) *1990 - (Cantus Arcanus (In Memoriam Aaron Copland) for Piano ) *1991-94 - Piano Concerto No. 3 *1991-2013 - (Twenty-two Tangier Portraits for Piano ) *1992 - Rhapsody for Solo Cello *1992 - (Café of the Ghosts: Fantasy-Trio on a Moroccan Beggar's Song for Violin, Cello and Piano ) *1993 - (Trio Concertant for Violin, Horn and Piano ) *1993 - Chromatic Waltz for Piano *1994 - (Color Etudes for Piano ) *1994 - Praeludium for Five Horns *1995 - Gargoyles for Solo Horn *1995 - (Elegy for Horn and Piano ) *1996 - Concertino for Four Horns, Timpani and Percussion *1997 - (Sonata-Ballade for Two Horns and Piano ) *1997 - (Dialogue for Two Horns ) *1997 - (Phantoms (Ostinato Etude) for Piano ) *1998 - Sonata for Harpsichord *1998 - (Effigies for Viola and Piano ) *1998 - Lyric Fragment for Flute and Harpsichord (or Piano) *2001 - Lament for Richard III for Piano *2002 - Color Etudes for Piano and Orchestra (arranged from Color Etudes for Piano) *2002 - Orchestral Epigrams *2003 - Winter Nocturne for Piano *2004 - Ode for F.D.R. for Piano *2007 - Primitivo for Piano *2007 - J.F.K.: Oration for Speaker and Orchestra (text from speeches of President John F. Kennedy) *2008 - Piano Sonata No. 6 (Sonata-Fantasia) *2008 - Dream Preludes for Trumpet and Piano *2008 - Ballade for Clarinet and Horn *2008 - Blue Phantom for Piano *2009 - Djebel Bani (A Saharan Meditation) for Piano *2009 - Simon Songs: Six Poems for Baritone and Piano (text: John Simon) *2009 - Simon Songs: Suite for Baritone and Orchestra (text: John Simon) *2010 - Slavic Rhapsody (The Novgorod Kremlin at Night) for Piano *2010 - Bagatelle on "Dies Irae" for Piano *2010-11 - Piano Sonata No. 7 *2011 - (Bagatelle on "Panis Angelicus" for Piano ) *2011 - Manhattan Soundings for Piano *2011-12 - Piano Sonata No. 8 *2012 - Demons of Barsoom (Homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs): Ballade for Trombone and Piano *2012 - Concerto for Trombone and String Orchestra, Harp and Percussion *2012 - Hurricane Etude for Piano *2012 - Bagatelle on Twelve Tones for Piano *2013 - Bagatelle with Thirds for Piano *2013 - Bagatelle Romantique (on Themes of Alexander Tcherepnin) for Piano *2013 - Night of the Djinns for Piccolo, Contrabassoon and Percussion *2013 - Piano Sonata No. 9 (Ballade) *2014 - Second Rhapsody for Oboe and Piano *2014 - (Musings: Thirteen Pieces for Piano ) *2014 - Loup-garou: Caprice for Tuba and Percussion *2014-15 - Piano Sonata No. 10 *2015 - Symphonic Song for String Orchestra 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phillip Ramey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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