History of Ramar Music Institute

Ramar Music Institute, was founded by Marsha Perkins in 1988, San Antonio, Texas. Ramar Music specializes in personalized piano instruction. Miss Perkins began her music studies in Texarkana, Texas at the age of four, with violin lessons from Mrs. Cora Cook, a student of the renowned Juliard School of Music violinist Leon Sometina.

She became a prodigious performer who won countless awards and accolades in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Shreveport Times describes the young violinist's playing as having "technical skill, delicacy of imagination, beauty of tone, and brilliant style."

As a teenager, her playing caught the attention of a talent scout from North Texas State University, which awarded her a full scholarship to NTSU where she enrolled as a music major.

Even though Marsha did not began piano until she was thirteen, the piano has remained the focus of her professional career. She has developed enormously successful piano studios over the past forty-five years in Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Texas.

Many of her students have won important awards, competitions, and scholarships, including four grand prize winners, and eleven first place winners at the World Piano Competition sponsored by The American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati, Ohio. These young artist winners then performed in joint recitals at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, one of her students played before a convention of 40,000 people at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, and another played before 20,000 people at the Fargo Dome in Fargo, North Dakota.

Below is a slide show of some of the awards and accolades received by some of Ms. Perkins students.