George Ross - ‘cello

George is a member of the Consone Quartet, the first period-instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists. The Quartet enjoys performing in major venues across the UK as well as further afield in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia and North America. Consone frequently expands forces, with recent projects including String Sextets with Francesca Gilbert and Alexander Rolton and with Rosalind Ventris and Richard Lester, Lieder arrangements with Helen Charleston, Octets with the Chiaroscuro Quartet and Piano Quintets with Alexander Gadjiev.

At the English Haydn Festival, George has performed Schumann’s and CPE Bach’s Cello Concertos, and with his father, Alastair has released an album ‘Father & Son’, focused on the Six sonatas, opus 5 by Francesco Geminiani. This autumn, alongside his friend and colleague, Tomoki Park, he is performing the complete works for cello and piano by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn at Hatchlands House and with historical keyboard specialist Linda Nicholson will be giving concerts at the Finchcocks Collection and at Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington.