Sunday Concert - Young Masters Recital Series

Young Masters Recital Series
Garrett Ross, Classical Pianist
June 12 at 1:30pm

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Carole Brill - Founder/Director - Young Master Recitals
Pianist Garret Ross enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. With a perpetual interest in chamber music, Ross is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Apollo Chamber Music Festival in Houston, MN, now in its third year. Recently, Ross has appeared on concert series across the USA including appearances on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the Courtroom Concert Series in Saint Paul MN and Music Northwest in Seattle WA. Ross has performed often as the “Artu Duo” with cellist Ruth Marshall across the United States, as well as, in Canada and the UK.
As a soloist, Ross gave the World Premiere of Gregory Vajda’s Csardas Obstine with the Texas Festival Orchestra and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra. He also performed Rachmaninoff’s First Concerto with Bethel Philharmonic Orchestra. Ross was the winner of competitions, including the Bruce Carlson Memorial Scholarship Competition and First Prizes in the Bethel University Concerto and Solo Performance Competitions. Ross has attended numerous festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival, Banff Centre, International Festival-Institute at Round Top, International Keyboard Institute and Festival, PianoSummer at New Paltz, and AmerKlavier Institute at Steinway Hall. He has also performed in masterclasses with various pianists including Menahem Pressler, Robert McDonald, Vladimir Feltsman, Thomas Sauer, Jerome Rose, Pavlina Dokovska and Alexander Slobodyanik, among others.
Ross currently teaches at the Rubato Music School in Brooklyn NY, maintains a private studio in NYC. Ross also was an Adjunct Piano Instructor at NYU and a teaching assistant during his time at the University of Minnesota.
Ross attended NYU’s Steinhardt School, the University of Minnesota and Bethel University in Saint Paul, MN. Ross’s principal teachers were Eteri Andjaparidze and Alexander Braginsky. Both teachers studied at the Moscow Conservatory where their teachers, Vera Gornostayeva and Teodor Gutmann, respectively, were students of Heinrich Neuhaus.