Graham Ross is a composer and conductor of a wide range of repertoire. He is one of today's youngest published composers, and has had works performed throughout the UK and beyond. A passionate believer in the unveiling of both unjustly-neglected and newly-penned works, he has given numerous first performances as both a pianist and conductor of a very broad spectrum of composers.
He studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, supported by an H.R. Taylor Trust Award for Conducting and a BBC Performing Arts Bursary. He is Principal Conductor/co-founder of The Dmitri Ensemble, with whom he has explored in particular many rarely performed and newly-composed works, and recorded works by James MacMillan (Naxos), Vaughan Williams (Albion Records), Judith Bingham (Signum) and Giles Swayne (Naxos). He guest conducts ensembles and orchestras across the UK and beyond, and is increasingly involved in the field of opera, having conducted in Jerusalem, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne and beyond.
As a composer he studied principally with Giles Swayne. He has had works performed at numerous concerts and festivals in both live and broadcast performances, with performances given by, amongst others, Aurora Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, O Duo, and the Solstice Quartet.
Forthcoming projects in 2010/11 include re-engagements with Aalborg Symfoniorkester, East Anglian Chamber Orchestra and Vignette Productions, touring a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte in August 2010. Future commissions and performances include the Edington, Farnham, Musique-Cordiale, Three Choirs and London Contemporary Church Music Festivals. In September 2010 he becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge, a position to which he was appointed at the age of twenty-four.
July 2010
