Dantes Rameau
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Dantes Rameau is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Music Project since 2010. AMP provides world-class music training and performances opportunities supporting youth growth and development. Operating in under-resourced communities, AMP’s mission statement is to empower youth to realize their possibilities through music.
As CEO of AMP, Dantes leads an organization serving over 1,000 students annually and offering tuition-free programming in band, orchestra, choir, and private lessons. AMP also provides college scholarships and career counseling. In 2019 Dantes led a major capital campaign leading to the establishment of AMP’s endowment and new headquarters space, the AMP Center for Performance & Education.
AMP’s youth music ensembles and faculty members perform over 60 concerts each year at venues across metropolitan Atlanta, from community centers to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Dantes has developed key partnerships for AMP including with the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation, Clayton State University, and Atlanta Public Schools. In 2024 the AMP Senior Youth Orchestra embarked on its first concert tour abroad to Ottawa, Canada. In 2024 the AMP Senior Youth Choir were crowned winners of the Youth Choir category at the World Choir Games Open Competition in Auckland, New Zealand.
Dantes holds a Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance from McGill University and a Master of Music in Bassoon Performance from the Yale University School of Music. He also completed a Performance Certificate at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a graduate of the Sistema Fellows Program at the New England Conservatory, where he studied non-profit management and music education. In 2022 he completed the DeVos Institute’s Global Arts Management Fellowship.
Dantes performs and teaches regularly alongside the faculty of the Atlanta Music Project. He was recently soloist with the Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de l’Ontario Francais in Ottawa, Canada. He has performed with the Aspen Chamber Symphony, Charleston Symphony and Wallingford Symphony, and has also performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.
He is a member of the 2012 class of LEAD Atlanta, a leadership development program for Atlanta’s outstanding young professionals, and the 2015 class of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute. Dantes currently serves on the board of directors of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.
A unique and compelling voice for social change through the arts, in 2010 Dantes was one of 25 groundbreaking creatives to be awarded $25,000 from AOL Artists’ 25For25 grant program. He was selected to Ebony Magazine’s 2013 Power 100, a list of the nation’s most influential African-Americans. He is also the recipient of the McGill University Alumni Association’s 2014 James G. Wright award, presented to young alumni who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to service and made a difference in the community.
Dantes is married to Katori Rameau, an attorney. They have three kids.