Ross Karre

About Ross

Ross Karre is a percussionist, filmmaker, and producer based in Oberlin, Ohio and New York City.

Karre attended Interlochen Arts Camp and Interlochen Arts Academy in 1998 and 2000 before pursuing his bachelor's degree at Oberlin Conservatory with Michael Rosen. After completing his Doctorate in Music at University of California San Diego with Steven Schick, Karre formalized his visual arts studies with a Master of Fine Arts.

Karre is now Associate Professor of Percussion at Oberlin Conservatory and a percussionist for the International Contemporary Ensemble, where he was artistic director from 2016 to 2022. He has performed regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), and Yarn/Wire (New York City). He has performed at major festivals all over the world, including the Mostly Mozart Festival (New York City), the Holland Festival (Netherlands), Ojai Festival (California), LA Phil Noon to Midnight, Lucerne Festival, Taipei International Percussion Festival, Big Ears (Tennessee), MONA FOMA (Tasmania), Diskotek (Greenland), and Music Today Biennial (Brazil).

10.67 Cycles, Karre’s solo album featuring the music of Ash Fure and Pauline Oliveros, is available on Bandcamp.

His video design work has been presented all over the world in prestigious venues such as the Kulturkirche Liebfrauen Duisburg, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, BBC Scotland, Western Front, MCA Chicago, the Park Avenue Armory, the Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, Roulette Intermedium, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and the National Gallery of Art. Karre’s archival documentary and documentation work preserves unique moments in the creative processes of Claire Chase, Pauline Oliveros, Vijay Iyer, Steven Schick, Matthias Kaul, Fritz Hauser, and creative collaborations of Third Coast Percussion, Yarn/Wire, ICEensemble, Mount Tremper Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the Oberlin Percussion Group.