Soprano Janet Ross is a core member of the Handel and Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, Boston Baroque, Upper Valley Baroque, and Cantata Singers. This season, she looks forward to a busy choral lineup and solos in Pergolesi Stabat Mater for King's Chapel's recital series, Bach cantatas 5, 36, 106, 151, 186a, and 11, Bach St. Matthew Passion, and Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri with Emmanuel Music, and Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Concord Chorus. Last season's solo highlights included Bach cantatas 9, 85, 96, and 248-II with Emmanuel Music, Bach's B Minor Mass with Cantata Singers, Strauss lieder with Mystic Brass Ensemble, and a Baroque recital at the Otter Creek Music Festival in Salisbury, VT. She is a 2021 alum of the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and was invited to participate in the American Bach Soloists Academy until it was canceled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.

​​Janet earned undergraduate degrees in piano and flute performance and a Master of Music in piano performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she was named Chancellor’s Scholar, an award recognizing academic achievement and service to the school. As a pianist, Janet won myriad solo and concerto competitions, including the concerto competition, Schubert/Brahms Category, and Grand Prize in the Eastman School of Music’s Young Artists International Competition. She performed in recital at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as the recipient of the VSAArts Panasonic Young Soloists Award.

Janet also has a M.Ed. in elementary education from UMass-Amherst and works in student affairs at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She volunteers with the House Rabbit Network and serves Cantata Singers as the Chorus Vice President.