Born in Boston, Ransom began his
musical studies at an early age. He was a scholarship student of William
Masselos at the Juilliard School in New York (BM and MM), and he also worked
with Theodore Lettvin at the University of Michigan (DMA) and Madame Gaby
Casadesus at the Ravel Academy in France. Ransom is currently the Mary L.
Emerson Professor of Piano and head of the piano faculty at Emory University in
Atlanta. He is founder and Artistic Director of the Emory Chamber Music Society
of Atlanta and has collaborated with such artists as cellists Yo-Yo Ma and
Steven Isserlis; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; members of the Tokyo,
Cleveland, St. Petersburg and Lark String Quartets; violinist Robert McDuffie;
guitarist Eliot Fisk, and members of the Empire Brass Quintet and the
percussion group Nexus among many others. In the summers, Ransom is Artistic
Director of the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina and
also an artist-faculty member of the Kamisaibara Pianists Camp in Japan.
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