Bill Ross

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Where Are They Now?: Bill Ross

Barbra's Current Musical Conductor
Bill Ross is alive and well and recently worked with Barbra Streisand, conducting the orchestra for her North American and European tours. His most recent engagement with Barbra was at her 2007 performance at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Ross worked with Barbra during the New York and Los Angeles legs of "Timeless" in 2000. He is an Emmy award winning composer and arranger and has dozens of Hollywood credits that date back to 1983.

Movie fans will be interested to know that Ross has been involved in composing or arranging the music for over 100 films such as "Matrix Reloaded," "Die Hard 2," "The Bodyguard," "Lethal Weapon 3," "Death Becomes Her," "Forest Gump," "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," and most recently, "Poseidon." In 1988, Ross conducted the music for "Ernest Saves Christmas," a film executive produced by Barbra's manager.

Bill Ross has worked with a who's who of the music world: Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Whitney Houston, Kenny G., Jennifer Lopez, and Quincy Jones, among others. His arrangement was featured in Celine Dion's smash hit, "My Heart Will Go On" from the film "Titanic."

Bill Ross's return to Barbra's concert stage was a musical reunion of two friends who already have a previous track record of making beautiful music together. Ross wrote the arrangement for Barbra's performance of "You'll Never Walk Alone" on the 2001 Emmy telecast, a performance that many consider to be Streisand's finest.