Ross Knight

Ross Knight is the Solo Tuba player of l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and since September 2022 the International Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Ross has played with several of the world’s top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was a member of the prestigious Karajan Academy, the London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, as well as many others. He was also the principal tuba player of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2012-2015 and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra from 2015-2016.

Ross was awarded 2 nd Place and the Overall Winner of the Category Tuba of the 2019 Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments. In 2012 he was the Overall winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Player award and in 2014 he was awarded 2 nd place in the European Brass and Percussion Solo Championships in Perth, Scotland. He has also performed as soloist with l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, BBC Concert Orchestra, Tredegar Town Band, Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, amongst others.

Ross features on Tredegar Town Band’s CD “Vaughan Williams on Brass” as the feature soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto.

As well as being the interim professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2022-2023, Ross gives regular masterclasses at some of Europe’s Top Conservatoires including the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and has given classes also at the CNSMD Lyon, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, HEMU Fribourg, amongst others. He was also the tuba tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2019, the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland in 2024 and the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland in 2024.

Ross is an artist with B&S, Melton and Besson.