Rohan Ramanan

Rohan Ramanan Bio

Rohan Ramanan is an Orange County/Los Angeles-based tenor & countertenor with a diverse musical background and expansive range. He has studied both Western and Indian classical voice for over two decades, and has been immersed in many styles of commercial music, world genres, and fusion work! Rohan performs with ensembles throughout SoCal (LA Master Chorale, LA Choral Lab, Tonality, Pacific Chorale, Choral Arts Initiative, Street Symphony, Laude, etc.) as a chorister and soloist (AGMA), and is currently tenor section leader for Long Beach Camerata. He also sings for film, television, & video game studio recording sessions as a member of SAG-AFTRA. His voice can be heard in scores for Disney, Marvel, & National Geographic, and he has performed live with Thirty Seconds to Mars @iHeartRadio, Tiësto, Michael Giacchino, Kronos Quartet, Musica Transalpina, LA Philharmonic, & for Björk as part of her USA ‘Cornucopia’ tour. He made his operatic debut in Houston Grand Opera’s premiere ‘Another City’ as Manoj Mukherjee, where his “ethereal phrases [...] offered a lightness and sweetness” (Texas Classical Review). He is a 2024 Fellow for the Thirteen Choir (D.C.), and was recently invited to the final auditions for Chanticleer. Rohan is an accomplished Hindustani vocal soloist and young artist throughout the United States and internationally, and helped lead a nonprofit dedicated to Indian classical music education, exposure, and enrichment for future generations of diaspora. He is also a freelance oboist, and received his B. Mus. degree in Oboe/English horn performance from the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts. He currently plays principal oboe with Synesthesia Sinfonietta, has played for international artists Shahkar & Surmukhi, and has performed abroad with South Asian Symphony Orchestra (SASO) and the Shillong Chamber Choir/Orchestra for the 90th INTERPOL General Assembly. In addition to performing, Rohan maintains a private voice/oboe studio and is quite the plant geek!