BIOGRAPHY
Ben Goldscheider has premiered over 50 new works for the horn to date including concerti, solo, chamber and cross-genre projects including with live electronics and lighting. Further to the world premiere performances of two new concerti by composers Gavin Higgins and Huw Watkins in the 2023/24 season, upcoming highlights for Ben include debuts with the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra (Rebecca Miler) for the Swedish Premiere of Watkins’ Horn Concerto, the London Philharmonic (Valentina Peleggi) with Strauss, Horn Concerto No.2 and Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Jamie Phillips) with the Higgins Horn Concerto. Ben will return to Ulster Orchestra (Paweł Kapuła) for the Irish Premiere of Higgins’ concerto, as well as to the Aldeburgh Festival for the World Premiere of the Brian Elias Horn Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Ben will also join the London Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Lachenmann’s My Melodies for eight horns and orchestra.
Further recent highlights include recitals at major concert halls across Europe including at the Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Pierre Boulez Saal, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Koln Philharmonie, Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall and as soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (BBC Proms), Ulster Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Lucerne Symphony, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Prague Philharmonia, Munich Chamber Orchestra (Klosters Music), Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen among others.
A committed chamber musician, Ben has collaborated with Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozuhkin, Sunwook Kim, Clara Jumi-Kang and Allan Clayton at the Verbier, Salzburg, Jerusalem, Intonations (Berlin) and Barenboim (Buenos Aires) Festivals, among others. In recital, Ben has collaborated with Michael Barenboim, Stephen Hough, Tom Poster, Benjamin Baker and Richard Uttley and is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Upcoming highlights include a return to the Heidelberger Frühling for multiple performances including a solo recital and Schubert Octet, as well in the US to Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara. In 2025, Ben will also be artist-in-residence at the Barnes Music Festival featuring in concerti and chamber music performances.
His recordings include Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain on Three Worlds Records with newly commissioned pieces by Huw Watkins and Roxanna Panufnik and a solo concerto recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra featuring the works of Arnold, Schoenberg and Gipps conducted by Lee Reynolds. Ben also recorded the solo horn call from Wagner’s Siegfried with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
Ben is a member of the Boulez Ensemble and Principal Horn of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra . He holds a professorship at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and is the Artist in Association at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Born in London in 1997, Ben studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Susan Dent and in 2020 Ben completed his studies with honours at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Radek Baborák. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions, Concerto Finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, and an ECHO Rising Star for the 2021/22 season nominated by the Barbican, London.
