Tyley Ross

Tyley Ross
Ross performing with the East Village Opera Company.
Background information
Born	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)	Singer, actor, teacher
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1994–present
Associated acts	The East Village Opera Company
Website	tyleyross.com

Tyley Ross is a Grammy nominated recording artist, the co-founder of the Universal Records recording act The East Village Opera Company, and a Dora Award winning musical theater actor. He is based in New York City.

A native of Ottawa, Ross began his career as a street busker before becoming a cartoon and voice artist, rock singer, and an actor for the small and large screen. Discovered by Pete Townshend in 1994, Ross was cast in the title role for the Canadian premiere of The Who’s Tommy, for which he was honored with the Dora Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical. He spent the next ten years on musical stages across North America, starring in roles at such venues as the Stratford Festival (Tony in West Side Story), Shaw Festival (Franklin in Merrily We Roll Along), and on Broadway (Chris in Miss Saigon). During this time, Ross also wrote and recorded two CDs of original music, and was a frequent guest soloist with a number of leading orchestras in Canada and the United States. In 1999, he was the singing voice of Manic in the television series Sonic Underground.

Ross is currently an adjunct instructor of voice at NYU’s Tisch and Steinhardt schools. He has led voice workshops in Canada, Mexico, the UK, South Korea and throughout the USA.

In 2004 Ross co-founded the genre-defying East Village Opera Company and spent the next six years as the group’s male lead singer. The band was signed to Decca/Universal for five years, and during that time he released three CDs: La Donna, East Village Opera Company, and Olde School - for which he was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Classical Crossover Album of the Year. Ross toured worldwide with EVOC and appeared on many national and international television broadcasts including the 2008 Miss USA Pageant (NBC), and two PBS specials: EVOC live in Saint Louis, and Remember Me – a multi-disciplinary collaboration he co-created with choreographer David Parsons.