Graham Ross

Graham Ross is a composer and conductor of a wide range of repertoire.  He studied at Clare College, Cambridge, and at the Royal College of Music, supported by an H.R. Taylor Trust Award for Conducting and BBC Performing Arts Bursary.  As a composer he studied principally with Giles Swayne, and has had works performed as far afield as Slovenia, Kuwait, Israel and Lebanon, with performances given by, amongst others, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Choir of Clare College, Choir of London, English Voices, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and O Duo. He regularly guest conducts numerous ensembles and orchestras, most recently Tallis Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia of Cambridge, and Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Denmark.  He has worked as chorus master for Ivor Bolton and the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, and Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra. He holds a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble, an innovative performing group that performs in particular unjustly neglected and newly-written works.  The Ensemble’s debut disc of works by James MacMillan is released on the Naxos label in 2009, and later in the year a second disc of works by Vaughan Williams, conducted by Sir David Willcocks and featuring the Choir of Clare College, will be released on the Albion label.

In the 2008/2009 season he has assisted Diego Masson in Stockhausen’s Trans at the QEH and Sir Colin Davis in Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ. During the summer 2009 he conducts new productions of both La Bohème – in a return visit to the West Bank with the Choir of London – and Le Nozze di Figaro with Musique Cordiale in London and Provence.