One of CBC’s “30 hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30” (2017 edition), Dorothy Ro is a member of the acclaimed Verona Quartet. She has performed on international stages that include London’s Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Melbourne’s Recital Hall, as well as Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. As a recent recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, Ms. Ro is currently on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory and College.

Dorothy has garnered top prizes at international competitions, including London’s Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the Melbourne and MPrize International Chamber Music Competition, Quatuors à Bordeaux; the Fischoff and Coleman National Chamber Music Competitions, the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Canadian Competition, and the Canadian Kiwanis National Competition. Other awards include a grant recipient from the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation and the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. 

As an avid chamber musician, Dorothy has collaborated with celebrated artists including Cho-Liang Lin, Renée Fleming, Orion Weiss, David Shifrin, Anne-Marie McDermott, as well as members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Cavani, Borromeo, Dover, and Pacifica Quartets. She has appeared at major international festivals including the Perlman Music Program, Aspen Music Festival and School, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy. She has served as principal second violin of the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, CityMusic Cleveland between 2011 and 2013, and has played with East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and Symphony Nova Scotia. 

Ms. Ro’s discography includes her most recent album, Ligeti: Complete String Quartets released with her quartet under the Italian label, Dynamic Records along with albums, Shatter (Bright Shiny Things), and Diffusion (Azica Records).

Ms. Ro is a graduate of the The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Her mentors include Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, David and Linda Cerone, and Alex Kerr. She has served as teaching assistant at the Juilliard School and has been on faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy, the ENCORE Chamber Music Institute’s Summer Academy, and Music at Port Milford. She has also taught and given masterclasses at San Francisco State University, San Jose State University,Virginia Commonwealth University, and La Jolla MusicFest.  Her other teaching credits include residencies at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance. 

Dorothy is currently represented by Dinin Arts as a member of the Verona Quartet and plays on a Nicolas Vuillaume violin, which she acquired in her home province of Nova Scotia, and on a Émile-Auguste Ouchard bow on loan from Oberlin Conservatory.