Ben Ross is a Baltimore-based Baritone praised for using contemporary art music to tell new stories. Ben has appeared with St. Pete Opera, Opera Baltimore, Bel Cantanti Opera, Opera Delaware, Annapolis Opera, Young Victorian Theatre Company, The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago, the Opera Company of Middlebury, Peabody Opera Theatre, and Thompson Street Opera. They are also a co-founder of TellTale Opera Theatre, a collective of artists in Baltimore devoted to asking the question, “What can opera be?”

They have also been featured as a soloist with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra (Bernstein, Candide), Bach in Baltimore (Handel, Israel in Egypt), the Hartford Choral Society (Faure, Requiem) the Peabody Symphony Orchestra (Mozart, Requiem), and the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra (Saint-Saëns, Requiem).

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As a chorister, Ben appears regularly at Washington National Cathedral, the Baltimore Basilica, Emmanuel Episcopal, and St. David's Episcopal Church. They were also a recent member of the Trailblazers program with Tenet Vocal Artists, a mentorship program for emerging early music artists to develop arts entrepreneurship and performance skills.

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Ben is also an accomplished arts administrator. They are currently a Worker-Owner, and Director of Development for Groupmuse - a musician owned co-op that organizes over 800 house concerts a year in living rooms, parks, and backyards across the US. They are also the Mentorship Coordinator for Tenet Vocal Artists.

Ben was previously a Vocal Fellow with the Spoleto Festival USA, an MNDuo Fellow at Source Song Festival, and a Brown-Loranger Fellow at SongFest. They have held apprenticeships with St. Pete Opera, the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center, the Opera Company of Middlebury, and Cedar Rapids Opera. Ben holds degrees from the Peabody Institute and the University of Iowa.