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“Ross had demonstrated a gift for conjuring up an organic
orchestral sound.”
Nordjske, Aalborg
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Nicola Semple
Graham Ross is Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Principal
Conductor/co-founder of The Dmitri Ensemble. A composer and conductor of a very broad range of
repertoire, he has had works performed throughout Europe and beyond. A passionate believer in the
unveiling
of
both
unjustly-neglected
and
newly-written
works,
he
has
given
numerous
first
performances as both a pianist and conductor of a very broad spectrum of composers.
He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music,
London. He held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus, has served as
assistant conductor for Diego Masson, Sir Roger Norrington and Nicholas Collon, and acted as
Chorus Master for Sir Colin Davies, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Edward Gardner and Richard
Tognetti. His performances in August 2012 of Beethoven’s 9th with the Choir of Clare College and
the Australian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tognetti, were hailed as ‘landmark performances’
and awarded Limelight Magazine’s Best Orchestral Concert in 2012. He guest conducts ensembles
and orchestras across the UK and beyond, with recent performances with Aurora, Tallis, Kensington,
Haydn, East Anglia and Covent Garden Chamber Orchestras. 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. He holds a special relationship with Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Denmark, where he has
appeared many times as guest conductor.
With The Dmitri Ensemble he has conducted acclaimed première recordings of works by James
MacMillan, Judith Bingham and Giles Swayne (all for Naxos), and previously-unrecorded works by
Vaughan Williams (Albion Records), earning five-star reviews and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone
and BBC Music Magazines. He now records for Harmonia Mundi USA, and his first recording with
the Choir of Clare College and The Dmitri Ensemble of choral works by Imogen Holst was hailed as
‘thrilling…impeccable ensemble…immaculate’, and awarded ‘Le Choix de France Musique’. As a
composer recent performances have been 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, at the Edington, Colourscape, Al Bustan (Lebanon),
Musique-Cordiale (Provence), Three Choirs and London Contemporary Church Music Festivals, at
venues including LSO St Luke’s, Wigmore Hall, Westminster Abbey and Sydney Opera House. He is
published by Novello & Co, Oxford University Press, Encore Publications and the Associated Board
of the Royal Schools of Music.
As an animateur and through outreach work he has conducted projects in Tower Hamlets, Wigmore
Hall and English National Opera, and collaborates biennally with English Touring Opera and Clare
College in a song-writing project with Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers. He is Artistic Director of
Fringe in the Fen, a music and arts festival in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire raising funds for
Macmillan Cancer Support. Forthcoming projects in 2013 include Sibelius Symphony No. 7 and
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with Madeleine Mitchell and Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra;
concerts with East Anglia Chamber Orchestra; Vaughan Williams A London Symphony with the
Sinfonia of Cambridge, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Musique Cordiale festival in Provence, Schnittke
Violin Concerto with Royal College of Music Philharmonia, Palestine Choral Festival in Bethlehem,
Fringe in the Fen Festival 2013, and a conducting project for church musicians in Cologne. With the
Choir of Clare College in 2013 he will conduct J. S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion with Evangelist
Nicholas Mulroy and leader Margaret Faultless, broadcast a BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong live from
Aldeburgh Parish Church, Suffolk, and conduct concerts in the St John’s, Smith Square, Spitalfields
and LSO St Luke’s. He will act as Chorus Master for Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Mark Elder at the Royal Festival Hall, for J.
S. Bach’s B minor mass with the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon at King’s Place, and for
two Handel programmes with the European Union Baroque Orchestra under Lars Ulrik Mortensen in
venues across Europe.
April 2013
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