Kristin Ramseyer, Soprano

Kristin Ramseyer, Soprano

Kristin Ramseyer is the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Vocal Music and Director of Choirs at Quincy University. She is an ABD Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Iowa, where she worked as a teaching assistant in Choral Conducting, sang with the premier choral ensemble, Kantorei, and studied conducting with Dr. Timothy Stalter and voice with Dr. John Muriello. 

From Fall 2015 to Spring 2017, she worked as assistant instructional faculty in the School of Music at Illinois State University where she taught voice, directed the Women’s Choir (now Treble Choir), and served on the staff of the School of Theatre & Dance and The School of Music’s joint productions of Street Scene and 1776. In May 2015 she completed dual Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting and Voice Performance at Illinois State University, where she studied conducting with Dr. Karyl Carlson and voice with Prof. John Koch. 

After earning her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2003), Kristin spent the first ten years of her career teaching chorus at Jeffrey C. Still Middle School (Aurora, IL) and Round Lake Senior High School (Round Lake, IL), where she co-directed and accompanied several musicals including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Jane Eyre, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Urinetown, and Jekyll & Hyde. 

Kristin is also an active soprano soloist. In the Fall of 2018, she was a soloist in the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and Choir’s performance of Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli. Her operatic and musical theatre performances include Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, the premiere of Griffin Candey’s Sweets by Kate, Bizet’s Carmen, Britten’s Midsummer Nights Dream, the premiere of Nicola Jane Buttigieg’s Beethoven in Vienna, and Schwartz’s Children of Eden.   

Kristin has also enjoyed serving as clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator at various district festivals, solo and ensemble contests, organization contests, and church choir festivals over the years. She was the music director at The Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Iowa City, where she conducted J.S. Bach’s Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, Alice Parker’s An Easter Rejoicing, and Vivaldi’s Gloria, RV 589.