B.M. - Grand Valley State University, MI
M.M. - Miami University, OH
D.M.A. - TexasTech University, TX

A proud alum of the GVSU Oboe Studio (BM '10), Dr. Mezraq Ramli, has a diverse career as a chamber and orchestral oboist, recitalist, teacher and arts administrator. He plays principal oboe with the South Asian Symphony Orchestra (India), second oboe and English horn with the Baroque on Beaver Music Festival (MI), and has performed with several regional orchestras in the US. Dr. Ramli is oboe instructor at Northwestern Michigan College and has served on faculty at Lubbock Christian University and Saginaw Valley State University. In 2015, he founded the Leland Musical Arts Celebration, a summer chamber music and visual arts series, that brings artists from all over the US and abroad, to Leland. Dr. Ramli's principal oboe teachers include Amy Anderson, Andrea Ridilla and Dr. Marlen Vavriková.