Ross Winters
Consultant
Ross Winters read music at The Queen’s College, Oxford and then studied the recorder with Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam. He was appointed Professor of Recorder at the Royal College of Music at the age of 27 and also taught recorder and early music at The London College of Music.
He has been Head of Recorder at Birmingham Conservatoire for over ten years. He has taught all ages and abilities throughout his career and has been a regular coach for the National Youth Recorder Orchestra since its inception in 2002. He conducts NYRO’s onetoapart group, BlockWork. His performing career encompasses numerous South Bank and Wigmore Hall appearances, broadcasts for Radio 3, a CD of English 20th century music and hundreds of other recitals ranging from schools presentations to concertos and including consort music and Baroque chamber music.
He has always had a strong interest in contemporary music and several pieces have been written for him including Alan Bush’s Duo Sonatina which he is about to record for Meridian and Elis Pehkonen’s ‘Mountain Sketches’ which he has also recorded. Now resident in Folkestone, he teaches at Ashford School and gives private recorder and piano lessons.