Gregory Ristow
Director Of Vocal Ensembles at Encore Vocal Arts
Greencastle, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolGregory Ristow is an accomplished choral conductor and educator with over a decade of professional experience leading college and community vocal ensembles, currently directing vocal programs at Oberlin College, Encore Vocal Arts, and Interlochen. He holds advanced degrees from Eastman and Oberlin and combines deep academic training in choral conducting and music pedagogy with hands-on ensemble leadership from university to festival settings. Gregory’s career blends sustained artistic direction with classroom teaching and chamber coaching, shaping singers across repertoire and levels. Unusually for a conductor, he has contributed front-end improvements to an open-source music-notation JavaScript library, reflecting an interest in how technology can enhance score presentation and pedagogy.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Musical Arts, Choral Conducting, Doctor of Musical Arts, Choral Conducting at Eastman School of MusicBachelor of Music, Music Education (Vocal and Instrumental), Bachelor of Music, Music Education (Vocal and Instrumental) at Oberlin College
French
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
music-notation10
svg9
test-automation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
0xfe/vexflow
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
A JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 77 commits, 30 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gregory focused on improving the layout and styling of music notation elements within the JavaScript library. They primarily made changes to the `src/accidental.js` and `src/tables.js` files to improve the layout of accidentals. They also contributed to the tests by creating and modifying files. Additionally, the user corrected scaling issues within the Raphael context and ensured correct text rendering.
javascript-libraryguitar-tablaturesvgmusicxmljavascript
gristow/wasm-pitch
Oct 2020 - May 2023
C++ - WASM pitch detection API
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
apicpppitch-detectionwasmdetection-api
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