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Marie Ross - International Authority on Performance of Clarinet Historical Instruments; Associate Principal Clarinetist with the French orchestra, Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi) where she performs everything from Mozart on the 5-key classical clarinet to premieres of contemporary works by composers like Guillaume Connesson on the modern clarinet
email: office@marieross.info
Biography
Marie
Ross is one of the most innovative leaders of the next generation of early music
performers. She frequently performs with superstars like Cecilia Bartoli and
Lawrence Brownlee in the world's most famous theaters,
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Theater an
der Wien in Vienna, and the Berliner Philharmonie, to name a few. She is
the Associate Principal Clarinetist with the French orchestra, Ensemble Matheus
(Jean-Christophe Spinosi) where she performs everything from Mozart on the 5-key
classical clarinet to premieres of contemporary works by composers like
Guillaume Connesson on the modern clarinet. She can be heard chatting about her
performing experiences, with colleagues and artists of various disciplines, and
about other topics like her historical clarinet collection on her podcast,
Fidelio.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the United States, Dr. Ross completed her high
school studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She went on to study
modern clarinet performance with Jon Manasse at the Eastman School of Music
where she earned a Bachelor of Music. She completed a Master of Music Degree
with Luis Baez at the San Francisco Conservatory. Among the first recipients of
the Priddy Fellowship for Arts Leadership at the University of North Texas, Dr.
Ross traveled to France to participate in a workshop on historical performance
practice, which led her to complete a second Master’s Degree in Early Music at
the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, Netherlands. She was a student of
Eric Hoeprich. Dr. Ross later came back to the University of North Texas to
complete her Doctorate Degree in 2015, writing her dissertation on wind octet
arrangements from the Classical period.
As a historical clarinetist, Dr. Ross has an extensive career which
spans throughout Europe. Besides her position with Ensemble Matheus, she also
performs regularly with leading early music orchestras such as Concerto Köln, Le
Concert d’Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), MusicaAeterna (Teodor Currentzis), Akademie
für Alte Musik Berlin (René Jacobs), Cappella Coloniensis (Bruno Weil), Das Neue
Orchester (Christoph Spering), Capella Augustina (Andreas Spering), Die Kölner
Akademie (Michael Willens), Bachorchester Hannover (Jörg Straube), Neue
Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Orchester Wiener Akademie (Martin Haselböck), Les
Agrémens (Guy van Waas), Ensemble 1800 (Fritz Burkhardt), Concerto Bremen, Het
Europees Kamerorkest (Wouter de Koninck), Concerto d’Amsterdam, Florilegium
Musicum (Paul van der Linden), the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (Tuomas Hannikainen),
and the Dallas Bach Society (James Richman).
Dr. Ross made her debut as soloist with the Dutch National Opera Academy’s 2010
production of Mozart’s, La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by Richard Egarr, where
she performed both solo arias on the original basset-clarinet and basset-horn.
In addition to her career as an orchestral clarinetist, Dr. Ross is the founder
and artistic director of The Royal Windplayers, a historical wind octet. The
ensemble has become known as one of the most unconventional historical
instrument chamber groups, regularly performing arrangements that Dr. Ross
writes specifically for the group. In 2009, she led an original semi-staged
production of Mozart arias and duets made up of her own arrangements for singers
and wind octet for the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe which was called the
“best concert of the festival.”
Inspired by the traditions of the classical era, Dr. Ross began making
arrangements for her wind chamber ensemble while still a student. This quickly
became a passion and an essential part of her expression and philosophy as an
early musician, combining new and creative elements with the traditional
historical scholarship and research. Dr. Ross currently works as a professional
arranger, and besides writing for her own ensembles, The
Royal Windplayers and La Vera
Costanza, she receives commissions from individual
ensembles and organizations such as Concerto Köln, Ensemble Matheus, the Wrocław
Baroque Orchestra, the University of North Texas opera program, and the Royal
Conservatory of the Hague. In 2012, Dr. Ross made an arrangement of the Mozart
Clarinet Concerto, which was premiered by the Winds of Concerto Köln in June
2012 with Toni Salar-Verdú as soloist. Most recently, she has seen the premiere
of her arrangement of songs from Schubert's Winterreise
(for string quintet, clarinet, horn, and bassoon) by the
Soloists of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra.
Acknowledged
as an authority on harmoniemusik, Dr. Ross was invited to return in 2011 to the
Koninklijk Conservatorium to coach a chamber music project for the early music
department. She has given workshops, lectures, and masterclasses at institutions
like Florida State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of
Central Arkansas, Troy University in Alabama, and Tarelton State University in
Texas.
New Information Under development
Message from Marie Ross
Agendas and Performance and Teaching Philosophy
Recordings
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