Chris Ramos is currently the music director at Union Church and he is also a DMA fellow in instrumental conducting at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, studying with Glen Adsit and Edward Cumming. Before moving to Connecticut, Chris served as a band director at Dalat International School in Penang, Malaysia where he taught classical, jazz, and worship music in performing and theory courses across grades 6-12.

He is also an active scholar working at the intersection of musicology, disability studies, wind band studies, and music education. In 2016, he received the Joanne Kealinohomoku Prize from the the Society of Ethnomusicology Southwest for scholarship combining these interests. He holds degrees from the University of New Mexico where he studied with Eric Rombach-Kendall, and from Texas A&M University-Commerce where he studied with Philip Clements (conducting) and Luis Sanchez (piano).

He has had the opportunity to work and play with many incredible artists around the world in both classical and jazz idioms including the likes of Stephen Hough, Wynton Marsalis, Marshall Gilkes, Allen Vizutti, Bill Watrous, Lucy Shelton, David Maslanka, and Susan Botti. He is an active member in the College Band Directors National Association, American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, and National Association for Music Education. Chris and his wife, two kids, and grandmother live in West Hartford.