An MA graduate of the University of York, Ben’s studies with Professor Peter Seymour focussed on Baroque performance practice; specifically, the influence on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach by his European counterparts and their country’s cultures and practices. Church music shaped much of his initial training and early career, and he has previously held positions at several of this country’s most eminent churches and cathedrals. He is currently preparing the release of his debut solo album, presenting the historically informed performance of selected dance-influenced organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude.

Equally at home at the organ, piano, harpsichord, and forte piano, he regularly collaborates with both instrumentalists and singers as an accompanist, and as an ensemble and continuo player has worked with several notable groups; The Royal Northern Sinfonia, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, The Sixteen, and the BBC Philharmonic amongst them.

He is Music Director of King’s Lynn Festival Chorus; a one hundred strong choir, collaborating with distinguished soloists and ensembles to perform from a wide-ranging repertoire. Recent highlights include Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor, Rossinis’s Petite Messe Solennelle and a gala concert of Gilbert and Sullivan including a semi-staged performance of the one-act comic opera Trial by Jury with soloists Sarah Fox and Simon Butteriss. He is also a guest conductor of The Fourth Choir, London’s LGBTQ+ chamber choir.