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Clarinettist Don Ross is the leader of Saint Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, one of Edmonton’s most innovative art music groups. Since 1994 the group has appeared on numerous CD’s, CBC broadcasts and new music festivals and has played over two dozen programs of traditional masterpieces and cutting edge new works. They often appear in partnership with the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society, for which they recorded two CDs, Brief Confessions Brèves and The Weather Inside. Don also appears regularly as a soloist and orchestra player. This year includes collaborations and appearances with the Edmonton and Prince George Symphonies, The Citadel Theatre, The Brian Webb Dance Company, The Sasquatch Festival, Opera Nuova, Piano Plus, Red Deer, Mount Royal and King’s Colleges and MusicAlberta. He is an enthusiastic improviser with the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society, currently serving as its President.

Don’s students at King’s University and Alberta College Conservatory are frequent competition and audition winners and he is much in demand as a clinician, adjudicator and conductor. In 2003 he was named an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre. He holds music degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, as well as a Master’s from Northwestern University in Chicago. Don’s works have been performed and broadcast regularly across North America and Europe. Recordings of his compositions and performances appear on Arktos, CLEF Records and Eclectra labels.
 

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