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Ben is currently a
Scholar at the Royal College of Music, supported by a Helen Majory
Tonks Award and the Josephine Baker Trust. He was Head Chorister at St.
Margaret’s, Westminster Abbey; a Choral Scholar at the Abbey School,
Tewkesbury; and spent three years as a Choral Scholar at King’s
College, Cambridge, where he read Philosophy.
Ben played Arsamenes in a
production of Handel’s Xerxes with
Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera in
November 2007 and April 2008. He has also staged Act 2, scene 1 from
Cavalli’s La Calisto at the
RCM; and has sung the final duet from
Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di
Poppea and performed arias and scenes
from Handel's Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare, with Hand Made Opera.
Ben has
made numerous solo appearances across England and abroad, including the
singing of a song by Weelkes with King’s College Choir on a tour of the
Baltic States, and the alto solos in Bach’s St John Passion and
Handel’s Messiah in Rome
with Hand Made Opera. Ben has also sung Bach
Cantata BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh,
beliebte Seelenlust with the Cambridge
University Baroque Ensemble.
Ben has a particular passion for Baroque
opera and oratorio, although his repertoire of song includes works by
Debussy, Schumann and Quilter as well as by Dowland, Purcell and
Monteverdi. Ben currently studies with Ashley Stafford, and formerly
studied with Colin Baldy. |
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