Composer Eric Ross, with video artist Mary Ross (USA), present a special concert performance at the Lueneberg Festival of New Music, Germany. Eric Ross performs on piano, guitar and synthesizer and is a master of the Theremin, one of the first electronic instruments. Eric’s compositions include elements of jazz, classic, serial, and avant garde. Mary Ross’s videos, projected in performance, are organized, arranged and edited to his music. In an hour-long performance, both artists will present their most recent work, the Boulevard d’Reconstructie, (Op. 54).

Upcoming Concerts:
March 10, 2011 - Homer, New York. Concert at the Center for Arts, 8:00pm.
May 27, 2011 - Bremen, Germany. Concert with Jens Carstensen, Longstring.
May 29, 2011 - Luneberg, Germany. Concert at the New Music Festival.

      Eric Ross (born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA) received his B.A. and M.A. from the State University of New York. He premiered his Concerto for Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York, and released his first solo album, Songs for Synthesized Soprano, in 1982. He has written symphonies, chamber pieces and many works for solo instruments. He's performed concerts of his original music at the Newport, Berlin, Montreux, and North Sea Jazz Festivals, the Copenhagen New Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival among others worldwide.
      Eric performs on piano, guitars, synthesizers, and the Theremin. For over twenty years, he has led his own ensemble that has featured jazz greats John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Byard Lancaster, new music virtuosos Robert Dick, Lydia Kavina, Youseff Yancy and many others. He has also played with Blues Legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and appeared with BB King on Danish RTV.
      With his wife, Mary Ross, Eric presents multi-media concerts of video, film, computer art, dance and music. He began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and television. He has written an Overture for 14 Theremins and performed on the 1997 World Premiere of Percy Grainger's Free Music No.1 in New York City. In 2006, he was guest artist on the No.1 Best Selling CD in Japan, Aqi Fzono's Cosmology.
      As a teacher, Eric Ross has lectured on the Theremin, piano, guitar, and electronic music at colleges, universities and schools throughout the United States and Europe. He was Master Teacher at the First International Theremin Festival and is considered to be the foremost authority on Frederick W. Riesberg, Franz Liszt's last pupil. Eric was a personal friend of inventor Robert Moog, the theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, and in 1991 had met and played for Professor Lev Termen himself. Eric Ross has drawn inspiration from these artists to continue developing the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions.