Ben is a multifaceted classical music professional whose career seamlessly integrates high-level arts management with a freelance profile as a conductor and keyboardist.‍ ‍

In 2026 he joined the team at King’s College Cambridge as Concerts Manager and oversees the delivery of a diverse programme of concerts and events at one of the most prestigious and iconic musical institutions in the world. From August 2026, his role will expand and as Concerts and Projects Manager will incorporate operational management of the Choir of King’s College’s wider portfolio to include touring support in the UK and worldwide.

Formerly, as Festival Manager of King’s Lynn Festival, he coordinated all aspects of creative and administrative planning, strategy, development, and delivery. In 2026, the 75th anniversary festival promoted some 40 concert and events over two weeks across historic venues in the festival town spanning a broad range of genres and including classical music, jazz, folk, dance, theatre, exhibitions, and talks. He joined the festival from James Brown Management in Cambridge where he worked as an Artist Manager, providing high level creative, operational, and administrative support to celebrated conductors and instrumentalists of international renown, including Benjamin Grosvenor, Francesca Dego, Tess Jackson, Alpesh Chauhan, Enrique Mazzola, and the Attacca Quartet.

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, Duruflé’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, 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. As a conductor he has worked with choral ensembles across a wide range of age and ability and has studied the art with Patrick Russill and Paul Brough.

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 now Organist of Holy Sepulchre London, the National Musicians’ Church, where he accompanies the professional choir, working closely with Director of Music, Peter Asprey. Indeed, his musical life began aged seven as a chorister in the then men and boys’ choral tradition of his local parish church choir. Despite a considerable waiting list for the most well-regarded piano teacher locally, lessons began in earnest when aged just nine he wouldn’t take no for an answer, personally telephoning daily to check availability. She eventually gave in!

An MA graduate of the University of York — where he achieved one of the highest marks ever awarded by the faculty — his studies with Professor Peter Seymour focussed on historically informed performance; specifically, the influence on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach by his European counterparts and their country’s cultures and practices.

Equally at home at the organ, piano, harpsichord, and forte piano, he collaborates with both instrumentalists and singers as an accompanist, and as an ensemble and continuo player has worked with notable groups including The Royal Northern Sinfonia, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, The Sixteen, London Mozart Players, and BBC Philharmonic live on BBC Radio 3. He has studied the organ with Andrew Reid, David Titterington, Ian Curror, Henry Fairs, and Robert Quinney, and harpsichord and forte piano with Peter Seymour.

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