Since September 2016, Ross Knight has been Solo Tuba of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ross has played with several of Europe’s top orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, where he was on trial for one and a half years, Philharmonia Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, among others.
Ross Knight has been Principal Tuba player of both the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and European Union Youth Orchestra, and was named the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Player of the Year. In April 2014, Ross was runner-up in the European Soloist Competition for Brass and Percussion and won the Best Tuba award. He is, to this day, the highest-placed tuba player in the history of the competition.
Knight has been successful as a soloist on many occasions. Recently, he was awarded second prize and overall winner of the category in the 2019 Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments. In the final round, he performed as soloist with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. Prior to that, he performed the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with the Exeter Symphony Orchestra and has also appeared with the Whitehall Orchestra, Tayside Symphony Orchestra and at the RNCM Brass Band Festival with Tredegar Town Band.
Ross regularly gives masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music, Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon, Haute École de Musique de Genève and Escola de Música do Estado de São Paulo, among others. In July 2019, Ross was the tuba tutor of the Australian Youth Orchestra as part of their European and China tour.
Ross Knight studied under Patrick Harrild at the Royal Academy of Music and went on to be Tuba Academist at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s prestigious Karajan Academy, alongside the orchestra’s Principal Tuba, Alexander von Puttkamer. During this time, he also studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover under Jens Bjørn-Larsen.
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