Graham Ross has been played on NTS shows including Monument Eternal: An Alice Coltrane Special, with A Ceremony Of Carols Op. 28 first played on 10 February 2025.

Graham Ross (conductor) was born in Farnham, Surrey in 1985, and was educated at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he read Music and graduated in 2006 with the Royalton Kisch Prize for the highest academic grade in College. At the RCM he studied piano with James Lisney and Thalia Myers, alongside lessons in organ and composition. During this period he was awarded four of the RCM prizes and a distinction in his ABRSM Diploma in Piano Performance. At Cambridge he worked with many of the major University ensembles, holding Assistant Conductorships with both the University Symphony Orchestra and the University Musical Society. In his first year he co-founded The Dmitri Ensemble, a 40-strong string orchestra comprised of players from across the University, in order to explore the range of the string orchestra repertoire. He has guest-conducted the Sinfonia of Cambridge in a programme with soloist Lyn Fletcher, leader of the Hallé Orchestra.

As a composer he has studied with Giles Swayne and Timothy Salter, and has had works performed at numerous concerts and festivals, including as far afield as Slovenia and Kuwait, with performances by, amongst others, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, USA), The Place Contemporary Dance School, Phantasmagoria Vocal Ensemble, the Choir of Clare College, the Royal College of Music JD Chamber Choir, English Voices and The Dmitri Ensemble. As winner of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s inaugural composition competition, his piece Come to me in the silence of the night was premièred by the choir in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and is now published by Novello & Co. He is an spnm (Society for the Promotion of New Music) shortlisted composer.

In September 2006 he returned to the RCM for a postgraduate Masters degree in orchestral conducting, where he has since prepared orchestras for and worked alongside Bernard Haitink and the late János Fürst. He is generously supported by a BBC Fame Academy Education Bursary, as one of four recipients of this prize in 2006.