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Scottish Baritone Ross Cumming completed his MMus in Opera Studies at RCS Alexander Gibson Opera School, where he studied under Scott Johnson. A music graduate of the University of Aberdeen (First Class Honours Degree), he also studied under Matthew Best at RNCM, achieving a Distinction in his Vocal Studies Masters.

He was a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2023 – 25 and in 2026 Ross is a Serena Fenwick Young Artist, in collaboration with Garsington Opera.

Ross has performed as a Young Artist Programme at the Buxton International Festival Opera, as well as with Opera Festival Scotland, Cumbria Opera, Grange Park Opera and Chelsea Opera Group.  He has been a VOCES8 Scholar, a Dunedin Consort Young Artist and a member of Genesis Sixteen.  In 2023 he won the Basil Turner Prize awarded by the Toni V. Fell Trust and in 2021 the Bessie Cronshaw/Frost Brownson Song Cycle Competition having previously won the Ogston Music Prize.

In 2023 he sang the lead role of Pilgrim in British Youth Opera’s production of The Pilgrim’s Progress and in 2024 the role of Junius in the Rape of Lucretia.

Recent operatic performances with Scottish Opera include Roger Penistone (A Matter of Misconduct), The Foreman (Trial by Jury), covering Doctor Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Sid (Albert Herring), Marchese d’Obigny (La Traviata), cover Don Ramiro (L’Heure Espagnole), cover Smirnov (The Bear) and Father (Hansel und Gretel), Fiorello and covering Figaro (The Barber of Seville).

Autumn 2025 saw his debut with Wexford Opera Festival, appearing as Don Estoban (The Dwarf) written by Zemlinsky. Other operatic roles include Jazz Trio Baritone (Trouble in Tahiti) Buxton, Jahel (Le Roi d’Ys) Chelsea Opera Group, Johann (Werther) Grange Park, Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) Cumbria Opera, Sirocco (L’etoile) RCS, The Forester (Cunning Little Vixen) and Le Marquis (Dialogues des Carmelites) RNCM.

In 2026 Ross looks forward to performing as ‘Frank’ in Opera Bohemia’s (Die Fledermaus) and the role of ‘Warren’ in Scottish Opera’s new commission of (The Galloping Cure) by Missy Mizzoli.

He also looks forward to making his debut at the Royal Ballet and Opera in ‘Tales of Love and Loss’ at the Linbury Theatre this season.

Alongside his operatic career, Ross is a keen concert soloist and has regularly performed in opera galas, recitals and concerts across the UK. Ross has been supported in his studies by a RCS Scholarship and a RNCM Scholarship and by grants from the Robert Nicol Trust and the Caird Travelling Scholarship.