Violinist and composer Michelle Ross is unique as both a solo artist and collaborative visionary.  She is in demand as soloist, chamber musician, and guest concertmaster. Her debut album, the Complete Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach, was recently released by Albany Records. In 2015, she performed the complete Bach cycle for 33 days throughout NYC, and her contemporaneous blog was featured by Alex Ross.  Ms. Ross is the recipient of the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund. Recent highlights include Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, and her lifelong teacher, Itzhak Perlman. Ms. Ross had her Carnegie Hall debut with Harry Bicket in 2013, and highlights include performing with and directing the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and concertmaster with Teodor Currentzis’ MusicAeterna. She performed at the Marlboro Music Festival from 2011-2014, and tours frequently with Musicians from Marlboro.  She has also toured extensively with Itzhak Perlman and has collaborated with Mitsuko Uchida and Dénes Várjon and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, and Cleveland String Quartets.

In 2014, Ms. Ross founded her own festival, Music in the Mountains, atop Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah. In 2016, she launched Chamber Music at Eleventh Street Arts, in close collaboration with visual artists at a gallery in NYC. As a composer and improviser, Ms. Ross creates multimedia and collaborative works, and was awarded a New Music USA grant and an Emerging Composer Award.  She also creates live immersive works with electronics. Her work tours with Aspen Sante Fe Ballet and has premiered in the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Joyce Theater, and Beyond the Machine Festival in France, Berlin, and the Philippines.

Ms. Ross holds a Masters of Music from Juilliard and a B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University. She studied with Dorothy DeLay, Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho and Ronald Copes.

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