Ross McIntosh, deeply interested in exploring new ways of engaging in artistic exchange, continues to forge a unique path as a violist, composer, and musician. Recent musical endeavours span from solo concerts and 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.

As founder and 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. Proudly 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 . . .

His teachers include Timothy Ridout, James Przygocki, Atar Arad, and Pablo Hernan Benedi.