Ross Knight
Solo Tuba player of l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Tuba Teacher at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland.
Solo Tuba player of l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Tuba Teacher at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland, Ross Knight has since September 2022 also been International Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, where he was a member of the prestigious Karajan-Akademie, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and the TonhalleOrchester Zürich, amongst others. He was also Principal Tuba of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2012–15 and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester from 2015–16.
The Overall Winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award in 2012 and Second Prize winner at the European Brass and Percussion Solo Championships in Perth, Scotland, in 2014, Ross was awarded Second Place and named Overall Winner in the Tuba Category at the 2019 Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments.
He has performed as a guest soloist with l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, BBC Concert Orchestra, The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, Tredegar Town Band, and Grimethorpe Colliery Band, amongst others. He appears on the Chandos release A Vision in a Dream, featuring Edward Gregson’s Tuba Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and on Tredegar Town Band’s CD Vaughan Williams on Brass as the featured soloist, performing the composer’s Tuba Concerto.
Having served as Interim Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2022–23, Ross gives regular masterclasses at leading European conservatoires, including the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London. He has also given masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Haute École de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg, amongst others. In 2024, he was a teacher on the Spanish Brass Festival – Festival Brassurround Torrent, where he also appeared as a guest soloist.
Ross is Tuba Tutor of the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. He has also been invited as Tuba Tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2019, Nationale Jugend Brass Band der Schweiz in 2024, National Youth Brass Bands of Scotland in 2024, and the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain in 2026.
Ross Knight is an artist with B&S Instruments, Melton Meinl Weston, and Besson.