Christopher Ramaekers
Associate Professor
- Department(s): Music
- Office Location: Greenhill Center Of The Arts 2025
- Phone: (262) 472-5623
- Email: ramaekec@uww.edu
- Website: View my personal website
Christopher Ramaekers is Director of Orchestras at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Music Director of the Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, Symphony847 and Access Contemporary Music in the Chicago area; and Principal Conductor of the Middleton Community Orchestra. He has been Assistant Conductor of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Chicago Composers Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the Ravenswood Community Orchestra as well as Music Director of the Quad-City Symphony Youth Ensembles, the Orchestra of St. Vincent’s and the Hyde Park Youth Symphony. Ramaekers spent 9 summers conducting at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine and currently spends summers with the Savoyards Gilbert and Sullivan Company in Madison, WI. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with the Kenosha, Kalamazoo, and Skokie Valley Symphonies, Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Dal Niente, and the Chicago Opera Vanguard. Ramaekers can be heard on recordings with Symphony847, Spektral Quartet, and the Chicago Composers Orchestra, as well as with organizations such as Rémy-Martin, and Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
Dr. Ramaekers has held fellowships with the Allentown (PA) Symphony Orchestra and the Peninsula Music Festival. He was winner of the 2011 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting and holds degrees from Western Michigan University and Northwestern University.