Ben has been working in music for 20 years, mainly as a freelance orchestral conductor and composer. He is a former BBC Music Fellow and has conducted such soloists as Tasmin Little, Peter Donohoe, Nicholas Daniels, Raphael Wallfisch, Lesley Garrett, Sir Willard White, Aled Jones and Dame Emma Kirkby. He has worked throughout the UK and internationally including performances in Germany, Norway and Lithuania.

His compositions and arrangements have been performed at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, the Wigmore Hall and the Bridgewater Hall to name but a few venues as well as at festivals throughout the UK; major projects include collaborations with the poet Ian McMillan.

He is the conducting tutor at the University of Huddersfield, a staff conductor at the Leeds Conservatoire and has written for BBC Music Magazine, Opera Now and Early Music Today. He has translated 3 operas and has been a guest contributor for BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4.

Outside of music he’s into climbing, caving, fell running, rugby league and being a dad who ropes his son into the aforementioned activities.