The 2010 season marked Ben's 11th season with the Stratford Festival, where he plays for live musical productions and has recorded incidental music for dozens of stage plays. Ben has also recorded for the Walnut Street theatre in Philadelphia, the Grand Theatre in London and for the Shaw festival, among others.

 

Though he is an accomplished performer of "standard" and early cello rep, Ben is perhaps best known as a performer of new music and obscure music from the 20th century.

 

He was the featured performer on a disc of new works entitled Notes Towards which was nominated in 2009 for a Juno Award. Ben is also becoming recognized for other musical endeavours. He was the orchestrator/arranger for Bruce Dow's Stanier award-winning musical Wilde Tales as well as conducting the workshop performances.

 

Ben teaches cello and chamber music at the University of Waterloo.  He is also the conductor of the Mississauga Youth Orchestras Concert Orchestra, as well as the newly formed Stratford-Perth Youth Orchestra. He lives in Kitchener with his wife Liz and two cats.