Corinne Ramey is a violist and journalist based in New York City.
As a violist, Cory has performed around the world, from New York's Carnegie, Avery Fisher and Alice Tully halls to the Midwest, Europe and China. She has recently appeared with orchestras including the Little Opera Theatre New York, Garden State Philharmonic, Distinguished Concert Artists International New York, the Strathmere Ensemble, the Sheep Island Ensemble and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Cory played on the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas' bicentennial recording of Mexican music, which was released in summer 2010 by Sony Classical. She has toured with the orchestra in Napa, California and Stowe, Vermont, and several cities in Mexico.
Cory is an active teacher and maintains a private studio of viola, violin and piano students. She was previously on faculty at Turtle Bay Music School, where she taught group violin classes through the Saturday Music Project, and at Larchmont Music Academy, where she taught viola, violin and coached chamber music. She is a registered Suzuki teacher through the Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute and certifed teacher of the Mark O'Connor method.
As a journalist, Cory has written for publications including NYTimes.com, Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, WQXR.org, CityArts, Vegetarian Times, The Forward, Next American City, The Classical Review, the NY Daily News, City Hall News, The Capitol, the Manhattan Times, and PBS Mediashift Idea Lab. Before moving to New York City, she worked at the Elyria Chronicle Telegram, a daily paper in Lorain County, Ohio, where her beat included the cities of Amherst and Vermilion. Her masters thesis, about dating among Modern Orthodox Jews in Northern Manhattan, was published by the magazine Guernica.
Most recently, she has focused some of her writing work on classical music journalism. She's interviewed many of the greats of the classical music world, including Lorin Maazel, Itzhak Perlman, Anne Sophie Mutter, Midori, Kim Kashkashian and Alisa Weilerstein. This past June, she attended the International Viola Congress, where she blogged about her experiences for Strings magazine.
Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Cory earned a B.M. in viola peformance and a B.A. in comparative literature with highest honors from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and an M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda. Her major teachers include Karen Ritscher and Roger Chase.
As a violist, Cory has performed around the world, from New York's Carnegie, Avery Fisher and Alice Tully halls to the Midwest, Europe and China. She has recently appeared with orchestras including the Little Opera Theatre New York, Garden State Philharmonic, Distinguished Concert Artists International New York, the Strathmere Ensemble, the Sheep Island Ensemble and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Cory played on the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas' bicentennial recording of Mexican music, which was released in summer 2010 by Sony Classical. She has toured with the orchestra in Napa, California and Stowe, Vermont, and several cities in Mexico.
Cory is an active teacher and maintains a private studio of viola, violin and piano students. She was previously on faculty at Turtle Bay Music School, where she taught group violin classes through the Saturday Music Project, and at Larchmont Music Academy, where she taught viola, violin and coached chamber music. She is a registered Suzuki teacher through the Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute and certifed teacher of the Mark O'Connor method.
As a journalist, Cory has written for publications including NYTimes.com, Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, WQXR.org, CityArts, Vegetarian Times, The Forward, Next American City, The Classical Review, the NY Daily News, City Hall News, The Capitol, the Manhattan Times, and PBS Mediashift Idea Lab. Before moving to New York City, she worked at the Elyria Chronicle Telegram, a daily paper in Lorain County, Ohio, where her beat included the cities of Amherst and Vermilion. Her masters thesis, about dating among Modern Orthodox Jews in Northern Manhattan, was published by the magazine Guernica.
Most recently, she has focused some of her writing work on classical music journalism. She's interviewed many of the greats of the classical music world, including Lorin Maazel, Itzhak Perlman, Anne Sophie Mutter, Midori, Kim Kashkashian and Alisa Weilerstein. This past June, she attended the International Viola Congress, where she blogged about her experiences for Strings magazine.
Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Cory earned a B.M. in viola peformance and a B.A. in comparative literature with highest honors from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and an M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda. Her major teachers include Karen Ritscher and Roger Chase.
