Walter Ross

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Born: 3 October 1936, Lincoln, Nebraska (USA)
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[details ←] 5 Dream Sequences (Piano, Percussion Quartet) Percussion Piano, Percussion,
[details ←] Capriccio Furioso (Euphonium Solo) Full Score Solo W/Band ,concert band,
[details ←] Capriccio Furioso (Euphonium Solo) Set Solo W/Band ,concert band,
[details ←] Concerto for Brass Quintet and Orchestra (2 Trumpet, H Brass W/Ky Trumpet,
[details ←] Partita Piano,
[details ←] Prelude, Fugue and Big Apple Tape Trb Trombone,
[details ←] Prelude, Nocturne and Dance Piano Piano,
[details ←] Six Shades of Blue Piano,
[details ←] Trombone Quartet Trb Ensemble Trombone,

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Biography

Walter Ross, whose works have been performed in over 30 countries, is perhaps best known for his compositions featuring brass and woodwinds. Raised in Nebraska, he became a professional orchestral French horn player by the age of seventeen and went on to gain more performance experience in college as a member of the University of Nebraska symphonic band, and as a double bass player in a polka band and a flute player with a baroque ensemble. After four years of engineering and astronomy, he switched to music, receiving much of his early compositional training under Robert Beadell. While working on his doctoral degree at Cornell (where he studied under Robert Palmer and Karel Husa), he received an Organization of American States Fellowship to study composition privately under Alberto Ginastera in Argentina.

The influences of his own extensive performance background and his musical training under composers who stressed bright orchestration and rhythmic excitement can be heard in many of Ross’ over one hundred works. He likes to write music that musicians enjoy performing and audiences enjoy hearing. Many of his recent works are representative of his current interest in neo-modal, pandiatonic composition.

Ross has already written a number of major orchestral concertos including ones for oboe, bassoon, flute and guitar, trombone, and tuba, and he is currently working on a double bass concerto and one for violin. He prefers the concerto form to that of the symphony because of its more varied possibilities for artistic expression in contrasting the solo against the orchestra.

Ross has received a number of awards and prizes and many significant grants and fellowships. His work is widely performed, and many of his compositions have been published and recorded. Currently a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, he has served as president of the Southeastern Composers League and served as a judge at international composition symposia. He has been a visiting composer at the Aspen Music Festival and a featured composer at several universities and forums and on national and international radio broadcasts, and he is currently a member of the board of the Capital Composers Alliance.

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