From BU to America’s Got Talent: CFA Grad Shifts Perspectives through Music

From being awarded a Boston Music Award for the Best Inspirational Artist of the Year to performing at the GRAMMYs with Alicia Keys, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, and John Mayer, CFA alum Kendall Ramseur’s (CFA’12) long list of accomplishments is simply phenomenal.

Ramseur received a Master’s of Music in Performance from Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music and it was during his time at BU that the nationally-acclaimed and billboard charting quartet Sons of Serendip came together. The group later went on to perform as finalists during Season 9 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. The quartet has also performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Pops for the July 4th Fireworks Spectacular, just to name a few.

Kendall Ramseur’s advice to current CFA students? “I think it really helps to step away from the written score from time to time and then step into the inner rooms of the soul. It’s there that the most beautiful and authentic stories lie. If you visit there frequent enough, you become more comfortable sharing from that place and I believe that you will find nothing but wells of beauty there.”

Ramseur’s new album, “Selah,” is available now and encourages listeners to “pause and reflect on how they are living their lives.”

About School of Music

Founded in 1872, Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music combines the intimacy and intensity of traditional conservatory-style training with a broad liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and elective coursework at the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, conducting, composition and theory, musicology, music education, and historical performance, as well as artist and performance diplomas and a certificate program in its Opera Institute.