About
Ross McIntosh, deeply interested in exploring new ways of engaging in artistic exchange, continues to forge a unique path as a performer, composer, and artist. Recent musical endeavours span from solo concerts, orchestral engagements, to chamber music, with performances as guest principal violist of the BBC Concert Orchestra, to extensive concerts throughout Switzerland with his quartet, Quatuor Thalia.
Collaborations with poets, dancers, composers, painters, and artists from all walks are crucial to McIntosh’s approach to performance. Also compelling for him is the exchange of musical ideas between cultures and across oceans - as artistic director of the Wyoming International Chamber Music Festival (Laramie, WY, USA), he has the opportunity to invite artists from all corners of the globe to come together and share in the creation of unique and new musical experiences in the singularly beautiful Mountain West region of the United States. Partnered with the Tenby International Music Festival (Wales, UK), these two festivals endeavour to highlight the importance of musical bonds that stretch across borders and can connect people at the deepest level.
As a composer, Ross has had his works performed across the northern hemisphere. From orchestral works, to chamber and solo pieces, art songs to popular arrangements, he makes an effort not to get stuck speaking only in his native tongue as a classical violist. Other pursuits about which he is passionate are studies of the organ and viola da gamba.
Ross has shared the stage with such artists as Atar Arad, Timothy Ridout, Gyula Stuller, Annette von Hehn, Daniel Blumenthal, David Lai, Alexander Gebert, Tony Nys, Joanna Blendulf . . .
Upcoming highlights include recitals celebrating the collected viola and piano works of Rebecca Clarke, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Thomas Mathias, a special 50th anniversary celebration of the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Dmitri Shostakovich, and a tour of Suisse Romande as principal violist for Opéra de Lausanne’s production of Le Docteur Miracle as part of Route Lyrique 2025.
Ross is currently a student of Timothy Ridout and Pablo Hernán Benedí at La Haute Ecole de Musique in Sion, Switzerland. Previous teachers include Atar Arad and James Przygocki.