WELCOME TO GRAHAM ROSS

This is Graham Ross's second season as Musical Director of the choir. Graham is a composer and conductor of a wide variety of repertoire.  He was a Senior Choral Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to study orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music, supported by a H R Taylor Trust Award for Conducting and a BBC Performing Arts Bursary.  He also holds a Conducting Scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus.

Graham 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.  In the 2008/2009 season he will assist Sir Colin Davis in Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ and Diego Masson in Stockhausen’s Trans at the QEH, and will serve as a guest conductor for Europa Cantat in Nevers, France. 

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, will be released on the Albion label.

As a composer he has written many works for numerous ensembles, and has had performances and BBC broadcasts given by, amongst others, Aquilo Wind Ensemble, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Choir of Clare College, Choir of London, English Voices, The Knack Singers, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, O Duo, The Place Contemporary Dance School, Solstice Quartet, Sounds Positive, St. Pancras Parish Church, The Syred Consort, and Westminster Choir College (Princeton, USA).