Ben is a versatile classical music professional, balancing arts management with a freelance career as a conductor and keyboardist.
Ben
Horden
As Festival Manager of King’s Lynn Festival, he oversees all aspects of creative and administrative planning, strategy, development, and delivery. He joined the Festival from James Brown Management in Cambridge with whom he worked as an Artist Manager, providing high level creative, operational, and administrative support to celebrated conductors and instrumentalists of international renown.
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.
2025/2026 Season dates
Saturday 25 October
Yorkshire Bach Choir
Haydn and Mozart in Salzburg
7.30pm, St Lawrence’s Church, York
Saturday 6 December
Yorkshire Bach Choir
Haydn: The Creation
7.30pm, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York
Saturday 1 November
King’s Lynn Festival Chorus
”I was glad!”: A celebration of the English anthem
7pm, St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn
Saturday 20 December
King’s Lynn Festival Chorus
Carols with brass
5pm, St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn
Saturday 21 February
Yorkshire Bach Choir
”In the midst of life”: Purcell, Charpentier, Blow
7.30pm, St Lawrence’s Church, York
Saturday 21 March
Yorkshire Bach Choir
Bach: St John Passion
7.30pm, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York
Saturday 11 April
King’s Lynn Festival Chorus
Come and sing the great British chorus
King’s Lynn Minster
Saturday 25 April
Brent Singers
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
7.30pm, St George’s Church, Modbury
Saturday 9 May
King’s Lynn Festival Chorus
Jenkins: Cantata Memoria
7pm, St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn
Saturday 6 June
Yorkshire Bach Choir
”An English choral garland”
7.30pm, St Lawrence’s Church, York
Sunday 19 July
King’s Lynn Festival Chorus
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
4.30pm, St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn
