James Ross has a great interest in providing support and promote awareness for charities both in the UK and abroad. During his career he has helped numerous charities raise over one million pounds overall and is keen to continue contributing to their work. These include Unicef, Addaction, Save The Children, Oxfam, Response International, Rethink, The Fund for Epilepsy, The Sunera Foundation and The Sri Lanka Trauma Group.
SAVE THE CHILDREN
£800.000 raised with musicians and dancers of English National Ballet.
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SUNERA FOUNDATION
James has helped arrange and contributed to concerts for The Sunera Foundation, which runs rehabilitation and education projects in Sri Lanka. These include a successful collaboration in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, with Oxford Opera Company, performing Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Most recently, he organised a concert with Danielle de Niese and Rohan da Silva in St John's Smith Square, London.
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THE FUND FOR EPILEPSY
Several concerts for The Fund for Epilepsy, now Epilepsy Research UK, at King's College London and St John's Smith Square, with Christ Church Festival Orchestra and St Albans Symphony Orchestra, raised over £40,000 for invaluable pioneering epilepsy research.
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Educational and Community Work
James Ross is leading a collaborative partnership between Sidcup Symphony Orchestra and Bird College, one of the world's leading dance academies and music education hub for the London Borough of Bexley. The objective is for both organisations to work together to offer maximum benefit to the community of South East London, students and young musicians. The collaboration involves conducting masterclasses for staff, joint rehearsals, practical workshops for A-level set works, ballet work with orchestra, and performing with Bexley Youth Orchestra including at London's Royal Festival Hall. |
The National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital is an internationally-recognised centre of treatment and rehabilitation. James Ross has conducted staff members in choral performances and workshops, and has led patient singing sessions. These help patients physically and emotionally through working on voice production, self-confidence and the pleasure of singing a wide range of music together. |