Ben is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in London (UK) who has released 17 full-length albums.
The songs build influences from Pop, Folk, Jazz and Classical Music on a
Rock Music foundation. Ben's principal live instruments are the piano and
guitar, and he plays a number of other instruments on his recordings,
including the mandolin, bagpipes, percussion, and double bass.
Ben's songs received honorable mentions in the
international songwriting contest SongDoor 2009. Ben was also a finalist
in the German Rock Music Competition, won second prize in the Southern
German Rock Music Competition, as well as winning the South-Western
German Rock Music Contest. He twice won first regional prizes in the
national young musicians classical music competition (piano), as well as
receiving two awards from the city of Kaiserslautern, Germany, for
outstanding achievement in the performance of contemporary classical
music (piano). At Oxford University, Ben held the Sir Adrian Boult
instrumental scholarship for two years.
In the meantime, Ben has
found the time to play several hundred live performances and to get
picked up by magazines around the world, including Lipstik Indie music
magazine, Inanna Naked magazine, Skope Magazine, Music Now on Junior's
Cave, Wildy's World, LaserDog's Music Hour , Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal Magazine, and has recently been
selected to be featured in IAE Magazine. Two of Ben's albums will also be featured in the next issue of what is commonly referred to as "the bible of progressive music", Progressive Magazine.
Ben is also the BAND OF THE WEEK at Leaf Pile Radio (March 2010), the Artist Pick Of The Week of NRG Theory Management (February 2010) and a Weekly Featured Artist in Music Now, Junior's Cave online magazine
(February 2010).
Songs from the 17 albums have been played on major terrestrial
radio stations in Germany (SWR, RPR, Rockland Radio) and are on rotation
with a large number of internet radio stations, e.g. Midsweep at
Rhubarb Radio, Insomnia Radio UK, The Songwriter's Network, Indie 104
Radio LA, Breakaway Radio, Pongid Radio, Radio Crystal Blue, Banana Peel
Radio, Indie Life Radio, Leaf Pile Radio, Underworld Mix Radio,
BandRadio and IM Radio. They have also been featured on some of the most highly rated music podcasts in the world, including Dark Compass and Indie Launchpad.
