Violist Ross McIntosh (b. 1999) enjoys a varied approach to music via performance, recording, composition, arranging, and unique collaborations with other artists, such as dancers, painters, and poets. Ross has collaborated with composers such as Kian Ravaei, Don Freund, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Jacob Wilkinson, and Atar Arad, and has premiered many new and engaging works which fall everywhere outside the box. His own oeuvre includes several solo works for viola, as well as chamber, vocal, and orchestral pieces. As a composer Ross is often inspired by his relationship with the outdoors, and the landscape of his home state, Wyoming.

Ross has shared the stage with such musicians as Atar Arad, Timothy Ridout, Gyula Stuller, Annette von Hehn, Daniel Blumenthal, David Lai, Alexander Gebert, Tony Nys, Joanna Blendulf, Erik Rydvall, Stephanie Gurga, James Przygocki, Sherry Sinift . . . He was the violist of the coveted Kuttner Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music during the 2022-23 season. Currently, he is the violist of Quatuor Thalia, based in Sion, Switzerland.

He has devoted time to studying organ, composition, and viola da gamba, and pursued these interests during his degrees at Indiana University. His compositions have been performed across the United States and in Europe. As an orchestral musician, he is principal violist of Ballet Indiana, a position he has held since the orchestra’s inaugural season, and has been a guest violist in several other orchestras throughout the midwestern United States. He has also served as guest principal violist of the BBC Concert Orchestra. 

A current interest of McIntosh’s is to make recordings of works by several well known composers, and to use the very instruments which they had in mind while composing these pieces.

Ross serves as artistic director of the Wyoming International Chamber Music Festival (Laramie, Wyoming, USA), which is proudly partnered with the Tenby International Music Festival (Wales, UK), and which will have its debut in August, 2025 .

Ross currently studies at la Haute Ecole de Musique, in Sion, Switzerland, under the guidance of Timothy Ridout and Pablo Hernán Benedí. His previous teachers include James Przygocki and Atar Arad.