About Graham
Graham Ross has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer of a very broad range of repertoire. His performances around the world and his extensive discography have earned consistently high international praise, including a Diapason d’Or, Le Choix de France Musique, and a Gramophone Award nomination. In demand as a regular guest conductor in the UK and abroad, recent collaborations have included Ars Nova Copenhagen, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Vocal Ensemble, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Salomon Orchestra. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble and, since 2010, Director of Music and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, where he conducts the internationally-renowned Choir.
He has conducted and recorded more than 100 world premières of a wide spectrum of composers, including Palestrina, James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse, Cecilia McDowall, Gabriel Jackson, Anna Semple, and Matthew Martin. He has conducted more than twenty-five albums and since 2011 he has recorded exclusively for Harmonia Mundi, including an acclaimed nine-album series of music for the church year, and composer-specific albums of Shostakovich, Imogen Holst, Pärt, Britten, and Palestrina. At the age of 25 he made his BBC Proms and Glyndebourne debuts, with other opera work taking him to Jerusalem, London, Aldeburgh and Provence.
As a composer commissions have included BBC Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, O Duo, Park Lane Group, The Prince Consort, Solstice Quartet, and Wigmore Hall. As an animateur and through outreach work he has conducted projects in Tower Hamlets, Wigmore Hall, English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and overseas in Nigeria, Palestine, across Europe and the USA. He is founder and Artistic Director of Singers Abroad, running annual courses for singers of all ages, and Artistic Director of Musique Cordiale International Festival in Provence. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio, including as a recent guest presenter of Inside Music. In 2021 he was made an Honorary Fellow the University of Macau, where he was presented with a Half Moon Award for the Arts in 2019. He is a Trustee of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London.
Appointed Friends of Scott Polar Institute Musician in Residence 2025, in January-February 2025 he travels to Antarctica on the Royal Navy’s ice-patrol ship, HMS Explorer, for a composition residency like no other. His focus will be the creation of a major new concert work about Antarctica which the BBC Singers will premiere in 2025.
November 2024
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