Rate My Professor Robert Ambrose

Ambrose maintains an active international career as a guest conductor, clinician, teacher, and lecturer on four continents, with recent engagements in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and across the United States. In Finland, he has conducted the Finnish Navy Band, Finnish Army Band, Helsinki Police Band, STM Summer Music Festival Wind Orchestra, Rauma Wind Band, and youth wind bands of Kokkola, Kotka, and Rauma, while teaching workshops and lecturing at the Central Ostrobothnian Conservatory and Sibelius Academy. He is founder and music director of the National Chamber Winds in Washington, D.C., Atlanta Chamber Winds, and Ensemble ATL, featuring musicians from the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera, and Atlanta Ballet orchestras. A prolific arranger, Ambrose has nearly two dozen publications with Presser Music, Murphy Music Press, C. Alan Publications, Fennica Gehrman, and Edition Tilli, appearing on state lists and performed worldwide. Within CBDNA, he served as president of the Southern Division from 2023 to 2025, vice president from 2019 to 2021, state chair for Georgia for over a decade, and on national committees including the Music Education Task Force and Gender and Ethnicity Committee. He leads the Wind Band Track at the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute.