Ross Jamie Collins joins HarrisonParrott for worldwide general management
12/7/2023
HarrisonParrott is delighted to welcome Finnish-British conductor Ross Jamie Collins for general worldwide management.
Ross Jamie Collins has been appointed Conductor-in-Residence of Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is a Dudamel Fellow with Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2023/24 season.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season included debuts with Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series, returned to conduct Turku Philharmonic and Colburn’s Zipper Orchestra, as well as assisting Maestro Salonen on tour with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Yuja Wang and Johan Dalene. Collins was a member of the Conducting Staff of San Francisco Symphony and part of Philharmonia Orchestra’s Emerging Artist Programme.
Collins was part of the inaugural class of Salonen Fellows in the Negaunee Conducting Program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Before moving to Colburn in Autumn 2019 to study with Esa-Pekka Salonen, he studied with Jorma Panula at the Panula Academy in Finland and was a laureate of the VII International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition.
A cellist, pianist and baritone, Collins founded his own orchestra, Symphony Orchestra ROSSO, in 2017 and conducted his first full symphonic concert at age 15.