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 a BBC Performing Arts Bursary. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor 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) and Judith Bingham (Signum). He guest conducts ensembles and orchestras across the UK and beyond, and is increasingly involved in the field of opera. This season he made his Glyndebourne debut as Assistant Conductor on Julian Philip’s opera Knight Crew. He has assisted Diego Masson and the RCM Symphony Orchestra, and worked as chorus master for Ivor Bolton and the Mozarteum Orchester and Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2010/11 season projects include re-engagements with Aalborg Symfoniorkester in Denmark, Così fan tutte in Provence and London with Vignette Productions, concert with Hertfordshire, East Anglia and Kensington Chamber Orchestras, and a fourth disc with The Dmitri Ensemble of works by Giles Swayne for the Naxos label.

As a composer he has had performances and broadcasts given by, amongst others, Aurora Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Choir of London, City of London Sinfonia, Edington Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, O Duo, and the Solstice Quartet.Forthcoming works include performances at the Edington, Three Choirs, Musique Cordiale and London Contemporary Chuch Music Festivals.

Graham was appointed to the position of Musical Director of Kingston Choral Society in 2008.