Music Director

Ben is fully committed to providing high-quality music to as many adults, students and children as possible – especially those for whom music or musical tuition would otherwise be inaccessible. His first love is teaching, and he has taught at a children’s theatre in Vienna and set up three children’s choirs for St. John the Divine Church in London where child poverty in the parish is 95% higher than in the rest of the country. There are now 90 children aged 5-17 coming to sing each week, and they have appeared in Covent Garden, Cadogan Hall, Peterborough, St. Albans and St. Edmundsbury Cathedrals, twice live on Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show and have an annual residential in St. John’s College Cambridge. Recently one of the choristers gained a place in the Chapel Royal Choir, St. James’, and a full scholarship at City of London School.

Ben is a professional tenor, currently taught by Nicky Spence. He has studied in Durham, Vienna and London and has sung with the Sixteen, Stile Antico, the Eric Whitacre Singers, the BBC Singers, Polyphony and La Nuova Musica. He also has a close relationship with Britten Pears Arts where he performs and conducts regularly. He recently performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn with acclaimed BBC young artist Annmarie Federle.

Ben’s book “Introducing Singing” was published in 2023 by Trinity College, London.

Ben took over as Music Director from Richard Cooke who had held the position for 39 years.