Kansas City Ballet music director Ramona Pansegrau comes to Kansas City via the Boston and Tulsa ballet companies, where she held the positions of principal pianist, solo pianist, music director, and conductor respectively.  She has been called one of the best ballet pianists in the world. Robert Joffrey said of her ballet class, "The perfect music for every combination."

She was music director for Tulsa Ballet for nine years, and conductor of the Tulsa Symphony orchestra for ballet performances before she became the Kansas City Ballet music director in October of 2006. She was principal pianist/solo pianist for ten years at the Boston Ballet and tenured keyboard for the Boston Ballet Orchestra for fifteen years.

Pansegrau was on the faculty at Aspen/Snowmass Dance Festival for eleven years, served on the faculty and as music director of five International Ballet Competitions, taught at the Boston Conservatory, and guest conducted at the New England Conservatory.

As a piano soloist for ballet, she has performed the piano concertos of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Gottschalk, Hindemith, and Chopin to name a few, performing with many symphony orchestras, including the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Of her performances, the Boston Phoenix stated "the music...brought to sublime heights by pianist Ramona Pansegrau, allow[ed] you to experience the music anew each time."

Her arrangements of ballets are now in the repertory of the Western Australia Ballet, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Tulsa Ballet, Louisville Ballet, and the San Carlo Opera House in Italy. As conductor, Pansegrau conducted the premiere of the Tulsa Symphony in Tulsa, Oklahoma with full-length Sleeping Beauty, starring Italian ballerina Viviana Durante. Her performances were hailed as “giving life to the music and energizing the dancers.”

Outside of Kansas City Ballet performances, her 2007 guest engagements included a recital of Liszt piano transcriptions, ballet musical director for the 4th season at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance festival, pianist for the Classical Dance Alliance of New York, publication of  “Classical Variations For Ballet” for piano solo, pianist for Vladilen Seminov, AnnaMarie Holmes, Irina Kolpakova, and work with Nina Ananiashvili and the State Ballet of (the republic of) Georgia.