Aaron Ramsey - Nevada School of the Arts

Program(s)

Composition

Aaron Ramsey is a professional composer, percussionist and audio engineer. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees Summa Cum Laude in Scoring for Film, TV & Video Games from Berklee College of Music.

While in Spain, Aaron was selected to write music for the short film, Copetin, after winning a contest at Berklee Valencia. It was recorded remotely with the Budapest Art Orchestra and featured at the Palm Springs ShortFest in 2014. He also conducted and recorded with a full orchestra at the world famous Air Lyndhurst Studios in London. In addition, he wrote “Galloping Across the Galaxy” for the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra, which was performed in Germany and Poland with conductor Geoff Neuman. After graduating, Aaron was selected to attend the Society of Composers’ and Lyricists’ Mentorship Program in Los Angeles where he met with several successful media composers such as Russell Brower (World of Warcraft) and Garry Schyman (Bioshock, Shadow of Mordor).

A solo percussion artist, Aaron composed and produced two albums of electronic music, Synthonica and Spiral, that he has performed in concerts with young musicians. Incorporating his electronic tracks, arrangements and synchronized projected visuals, these programs, along with other original works, were presented with the orchestras of the Las Vegas Young Artists’ Orchestra, K.O. Knudson, Bishop Gorman, Tuacahn High School for the Arts and Nevada School for the Arts.

In January 2020, Aaron was contracted to compose and perform his music for the Google Cloud Accelerate conference opening ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for over 10,000 people. Currently, Aaron is a professor in the Audio Recording Technology program at College of Southern Nevada and also employed by Clark County as a sound and lighting technician at the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center Theater in Las Vegas. He also scores, mixes and masters original music for Kino Lorber, a publishing company that releases short silent films restored by the US Library of Congress.