Now in their 14th year as Artu Duo, pianist Garret Ross and cellist Ruth Marshall are based in Minneapolis and Saint Paul MN, and enjoy concertizing and teaching together both on tour and at home. Highlights of the 2024-2025 season include an upcoming performance at the Hastings Arts Center, as well as collaborations at Sundin Hall in Saint Paul, and Bellevue College in Washington state. Artu Duo will also return to the Apollo Music Festival in Houston MN, where they have been ensemble-in-residence since 2013.

After forming in 2011, Artu Duo completed a residency course on the Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano at the Banff Centre in Canada. In 2012, Artu Duo traveled to the Aldeburgh Festival in England, where they completed a residency course on the chamber music of Brahms and Schumann. These immersive experiences sparked a deep love of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann in Artu Duo, which has been the foundational repertoire for them ever since- not only as a duo, but as a piano trio, quartet, and quintet, when joined by colleagues. From that foundation, Artu Duo has explored and championed an incredibly broad repertoire, including canonic works, contemporary and rarely-heard works, and particularly music written by women, people of color, and living composers. 

Artu Duo has toured extensively in the United States, playing concerts in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Montana, Washington, New York, California, Minnesota, and Louisiana. In both 2013 and 2016, Artu Duo played on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, which was broadcast live on WFMT. And in 2016, they gave their debut at Carnegie Hall, playing a complete program in the Weill Recital Hall. They have performed as soloists on the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Winona Symphony Orchestra (2021) and the Wartburg Community Symphony (2022).

Mr. Ross and Ms. Marshall are both committed teachers, and have enjoyed giving masterclasses and performing outreach concerts while on tour. Artu Duo community and educational performances have been presented by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Conservatory, the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, the Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival, Minnesota Public Radio, and through the Britt Festival Education and Engagement resident artists program. Additionally, Artu Duo has given collegiate-level masterclasses at the Apollo Music Festival, the University of Louisiana, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Indiana State University, and Humboldt State University.