Graham Ross studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, firstly as a Junior Exhibitioner and later as a postgraduate conductor under Peter Stark and Robin O’Neill, generously supported by an H.R. Taylor Trust Award. As a composer he studied principally with Giles Swayne, and has had works performed at numerous concerts and festivals in both live and broadcast performances throughout the UK and beyond, including as far afield as Slovenia, Kuwait, Israel and Lebanon. As winner of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s inaugural composition competition, he became published by Novello & Co whilst still an undergraduate. Forthcoming commissions include works for The Knack Singers (part of spnm’s Adopt-a-Composer scheme), a clarinet concerto for Aldworth Philhamonic Orchestra (January 2009), a string quartet for the Solstice Quartet (May 2009), and a major new work violinist Cerys Jones.
Graham is Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble; a group which he co-formed in 2004 in order to explore in particular both rarely performed and newly-composed works. The Ensemble’s debut disc for the Naxos label of works by James MacMillan is due for release in 2009. He guest conduct other ensembles and orchestras across London, and at Easter 2007 made his opera debut conducting the Choir and Orchestra of London in a production of The Magic Flute in Jerusalem, the first ever fully-staged operatic production on the West Bank. In 2008/09 he will make his debuts at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alte Musik and with the Aalborg Symfoniorkester.