Jacob's Pillow Dance

Ballet in 2006. Prior to that, she had been music director for Tulsa Ballet for nine years and conductor of the Tulsa Symphony orchestra for ballet performances. She was principal pianist/solo pianist for ten years at the Boston Ballet and tenured keyboard for the Boston Ballet Orchestra for 15 years. She has been called one of the best ballet pianists in the world. Robert Joffrey said of her ballet class, "The perfect music for every combination." Pansegrau was on the faculty at Aspen/Snowmass Dance Festival for 11 years, served on the faculty and as music director of five International Ballet Competitions, taught at the Boston Conservatory and guest conducted at the New England Conservatory. As a piano soloist for ballet, she has performed the piano concertos of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Gottschalk, Hindemith and Chopin to name a few, performing with many symphony orchestras, including the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Of her performances, the Boston Phoenix stated, "the music...brought to sublime heights by pianist Ramona Pansegrau, allow[ed] you to experience the music anew each time." Her arrangements of ballets are now in the repertory of the Western Australia Ballet, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Tulsa Ballet, Louisville Ballet and the San Carlo Opera House in Italy.

As conductor, Pansegrau conducted the premiere of the Tulsa Symphony in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with full-length Sleeping Beauty, starring Italian ballerina Viviana Durante. Her performances were hailed as, "giving life to the music and energizing the dancers." Outside of Kansas City Ballet performances, she is also musical director for the Jackson IX International Ballet Competition, conductor of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra for the "Ballet Across America" festival and musical arranger/editor for The State Ballet of Georgia's international touring season, with ballerina Nina Ananiashvili. Pansegrau returns for the seventh year as Music Director for the Ballet Program at Jacob's Pillow.