COMPOSER
Music for the Grammy Award winning ‘Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story’ with Paul Pilot for Sony Pictures, directed and produced by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern
Music for John Cleese’s Dinosaur Hour
Additional music for BBC’s adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s ‘Everything I Know About Love’
A few tunes for Aoife Crehan’s 2019 film ‘The Last Right’
Advert music for Samsung, Vodafone, Just Eat, Lurpak, Bank of Ireland, 123.ie and more
A co-write with Shri on his award winning 'Just A Vibration' album
Music for Double Feature at The National Theatre
'Postmankind' - Prog Rock meets Jazz. A collaboration with Marillion's Ian Mosley
Commissions including The Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra, Chaconne Brass Quintet and various jazz ensembles
Awards:
'The Heckler' from Ben's 'Blah Street' album won the jazz category of The International Songwriting Awards in 2003, judged by Pat Metheny and Arif Mardin.
The music for the Lurpak Freestyle advert won: BTAA Craft Award - Gold, Shots Award - Silver, ClioAward - Bronze, Music + Sound Award
SONGWRITER
‘Solstice Song’, written with MayKay and Adam Matthews to end Una Mullaly’s ‘Grianstad’ for This Is Pop Baby.
Beth Rowley -
'You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger' commissioned and written for the Oscar nominated film 'An Education'.
'Little Dreamer' - UK top ten album including the hit single 'Oh My Life' - BBC Radio 2 Record of the Week.
Duke Special - 'Tango Tangle' from 'The Silent World of Hector Mann'
Carleen Anderson - 'Night Falls' and 'Desiderata' from 'Alberta's Granddaughter'
Tom Basden - songs from 'There Is A War' at The National Theatre
Clare Teal - 'Everything is You' from the film 'Confetti'
ARRANGER
Ben has had much experience of arranging music for orchestra, big band, brass section, string quartet, choir, brass band, woodwinds and he loves the challenge of writing for any combination of instruments.
Recent highlights include -
Orchestral and choral arrangements for Midge Ure, Richard Hawley, Ash, Maverick Sabre, Camille O’Sullivan, Gerry Leonard, Fia Moon, Hothouse Flowers & the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the RTÉ New Years Eve TV show.
Orchestral arrangement for The Murder Capital for RTÉ Culture Night.
Orchestration for Peter Raeburn’s score for ‘Untethered’, which won the Creative Circle award for Best Original Composition
Additional arrangements for Mara Carlyle’s score for BBC’s ‘Everything I Know About Love’, including a version of Brass In Pocket, sung by Self Esteem
Shri / Award winning Album / 'Just a Vibration' - arrangements for brass band + sitar + Shri
Arrangements on albums for Gregory Porter, Lianne La Havas, George Ezra, Tom Chaplin, Herbert, Nakhane, David Brent, Jamie Lawson, Matthew Herbert’s Brexit Big Band, Duke Special
Previous highlights include -
Paolo Nutini / Boy George / Luke Sital-Singh / Mica Paris / Jamie Cullum / New Jackson / Culture Club / Kula Shaker / Carleen Anderson / Will Young / Ciaran Lavery / Beth Rowley / Cliff Richard / Marillion / Pop Idol / Matt Lucas (for Shooting Stars) / The Brand New Heavies / Julian Clary / Taboo - The Musical / The BBC Concert Orchestra / The BBC Big Band