Gifted conductor, clarinetist and teacher (clarinet, recorder, piano, harpsichord, Renaissance woodwind instruments), Gloria Ramsey was educated at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California; in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique, the National Conservatory, and the Sorbonne; and at music schools in Siena, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal. She also studied privately under both Nadia Boulanger and Safford Cape.

Gloria has taught children and adults privately since the age of 16, and at a large number of institutions as well, both in the U.S. and abroad, sharing her knowledge of conducting, music history and theory, and the fundamentals of music. She has taught at USC, UCLA, the Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco, Rio Hondo College, Cal State Fullerton and Northridge; and at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France.

In her long career Gloria has led hundreds of workshops all over the world. Some of these include the USC Recorder Workshop at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, the Sierra Madre Creative Arts Workshop, and workshops at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan; at the University of Vancouver, British Columbia; and at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada. She was founder-director of the Siena International Recorder Course in Siena, Italy, whose faculty included such artists as Frans Brueggen, Dr. Carl Dolmetsch, Hans-Martin Linde, Otto Steinkopf, and August Wenzinger.

Gloria toured the southwestern U.S. with the Telemann Trio; was a soloist with the Compton Symphony, the California Chamber Symphony, and the Gulbenkian Chamber Orchestra, Portugal; and has conducted at numerous music festivals. She has performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Amati Chamber Players, and the Burbank, Santa Monica, and San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestras, among others. She has also toured in Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Portugal, and in the Mediterranean as a member of the Ramsey/Raynaud Baroque Duo.

Of course Gloria’s talents have been sought by the entertainment industry, and she has worked for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and Disney studios; on the TV show Gilmore Girls; and as a soloist on KPFA and KPFK. She has recorded on Capitol Records, and performed on educational TV here and in France, Scotland and Portugal.

Gloria is a past vice-president of the American Recorder Society, past president and music director of the Southern California Recorder Society, and former assistant editor of the American Recorder Journal.

Most recently Gloria has been performing in and around Southern California with the Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra, the Hamilton-Ramsey Wenzinger Trio, the Long Beach Opera, and as a soloist with the Ventura Symphony and the Morro Bay Chamber Orchestra. Other current work includes leading workshops for the Southern California Recorder Society and Canto Antiguo, and coaching on cable TV.