Raminsh, Imant, 1943-

LC control no.	n 84011593
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Raminsh, Imant, 1943- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ramiņš, Imant, 1943-
Associated country	Canada
Located	Canada
Birth date	19430918
Place of birth	Ventspils, Latvia
Affiliation	College of New Caledonia New Caledonia Chamber Orchestra Okanagan Symphony Choir Okanagan Symphony Orchestra Aura Chamber Choir Youth Symphony of the Okanagan Canadian League of Composers Canadian Music Centre
Profession or occupation	Composers Conductors (Music) Violinists Music teachers Choral conductors
Found in	Vancouver Chamber Choir. Music of the Amercias [SR] p1983: label (Imant Raminsh, composer) NLC 2/3/84 (AACR 2: Raminsh, Imant, 1943- ) Baltic canticles, c1998, p1997: container (Imant Ramins, 1943- ) wikipedia on www, July 14, 2010 (Imant Karlis Raminsh (Latvian: Imants Kārlis Ramiņš, b. Sep. 18, 1943, Ventspils, Latvia; Canadian composer, he came to Canada in 1948) The Canadian encyclopedia WWW site, Nov. 20, 2012: Enc. of mus. in Canada (Raminsh, Imant; Imant (Karlis) Raminsh; composer, conductor, violinist, teacher; b. Sept. 18, 1943, Ventspils, Latvia; naturalized Canadian 1954; ARCT 1962, B MUS (Toronto) 1966. He established the music department at the College of New Caledonia, Prince George, BC, in 1968 and taught there until 1972. He was the founding conductor in 1971 of the New Caledonia Chamber Orchestra (after 1981 the Prince George Symphony Orchestra) and choral director 1978-1982 of the Okanagan Symphony Choir. Joining the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra in 1977, he became its principal second violin in 1978. He founded the Aura Chamber Choir in 1979, and in 1989 founded and became music director of the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan; in 2008 he remained director of both. He began to teach music theory privately in 1969 and at the Vernon Music School in 1977. He is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.)