Ben Goldscheider

Ben Goldscheider has premiered over 50 new works for horn, spanning concertos, solo, chamber and cross-genre projects, including those incorporating live electronics and lighting.

This season he gives the world premieres of Sirens by Anna Clyne with the London Mozart Players and Laurence Osborn’s Horn Concerto with Manchester Camerata. He also makes his debut with Magdeburg Philharmonic and Christian Øland performing Gavin Higgins’s Horn Concerto.

Recent highlights include the world premiere of Brian Elias’s Horn Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Irish premiere of Higgins’s concerto with the Ulster Orchestra and performances with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Aichi Chamber Orchestra.

He has given recitals at major concert halls across Europe, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Cologne Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Southbank Centre, and Wigmore Hall.

He is also a committed chamber musician and has collaborated with leading artists, including Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Sunwook Kim, Clara Jumi-Kang and Allan Clayton, at festivals such as Verbier, Salzburg, Jerusalem, Intonations (Berlin) and Barenboim (Buenos Aires). In recital, he has worked with Michael Barenboim, Sir Stephen Hough, Tom Poster, Benjamin Baker, Giuseppe Guarrera and Richard Uttley, and is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. This year he was Artist-in-Residence at the Barnes Music Festival. Forthcoming highlights include a return to the US with Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara and a concert at the Boulez Saal with Alina Ibragimova and Dénes Várjon, as well as a programme of works for horn and electronics.

His recordings include Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain, featuring newly commissioned works by Huw Watkins and Roxanna Panufnik and a solo concerto album with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

He is Principal Horn of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra and a Principal Player of Camerata Pacifica. He is also a member of the Boulez Ensemble. He holds a professorship at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and serves as Artist-in-Association at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Ben Goldscheider was born in London in 1997 and studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and in 2020 completed his studies with honours at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions, a concerto finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, and was nominated by the Barbican as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2021/22 season.

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Mae Ben Goldscheider wedi perfformio dros 50 o weithiau newydd i’r corn am y tro cyntaf, yn goncerti, unawdau, darnau siambr, a phrosiectau traws-genre, gan gynnwys gwaith sy’n ymgorffori electroneg fyw a goleuadau.

Y tymor hwn mae’n perfformio premières byd Sirens gan Anna Clyne gyda’r London Mozart Players, a Concerto Laurence Osborn i’r Corn gyda Manchester Camerata. Mae hefyd yn gwneud ei ymddangosiad cyntaf gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Magdeburg a Christian Øland i berfformio Concerto Gavin Higgins i’r Corn.

Ymhlith uchafbwyntiau diweddar cafwyd première byd Concerto Brian Elias i’r Corn gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni’r BBC yng Ngŵyl Aldeburgh, y perfformiad cyntaf yn Iwerddon o goncerto Higgins gyda Cherddorfa Ulster a pherfformiadau gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Tokyo a Cherddorfa Siambr Aichi.

Mae wedi rhoi datganiadau mewn neuaddau cyngerdd mawr ledled Ewrop, gan gynnwys Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kölner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Southbank Centre, a Wigmore Hall.

Mae hefyd yn gerddor siambr ymroddedig ac wedi cydweithio ag artistiaid blaenllaw, gan gynnwys Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Sunwook Kim, Clara Jumi-Kang, ac Allan Clayton mewn gwyliau fel Verbier, Salzburg, Jerusalem, Intonations (Berlin), a Barenboim (Buenos Aires). Perfformiodd ddatganiadau gyda Michael Barenboim, Syr Stephen Hough, Tom Poster, Benjamin Baker, Giuseppe Guarrera a Richard Uttley, ac mae’n aelod o’r Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Eleni bu’n Artist Preswyl yng Ngŵyl Gerdd Barnes. Ymhlith yr uchafbwyntiau sydd i ddod mae dychwelyd i’r Unol Daleithiau gyda Camerata Pacifica yn Santa Barbara a chyngerdd yn y Boulez Saal gydag Alina Ibragimova a Dénes Várjon, yn ogystal â rhaglen o weithiau ar gyfer corn ac electroneg.

Mae ei recordiadau yn cynnwys Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain, gyda gweithiau newydd gan Huw Watkins a Roxanna Panufnik, ac albwm o goncerti unawdol gyda Cherddorfa Philharmonia.

Mae’n Brif Gorn y West-Eastern Divan Orchestra ac yn Brif Chwaraewr Camerata Pacifica. Mae hefyd yn aelod o’r Boulez Ensemble. Mae’n athro yn Ysgol Gerdd Frenhinol Antwerp ac yn gwasanaethu fel Artist Cyswllt yng Ngholeg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru.

Ganed Ben Goldscheider yn Llundain ym 1997 ac astudiodd yn Adran Iau y Coleg Cerdd Brenhinol cyn cwblhau ei astudiaethau gydag anrhydedd yn 2020 yn Academi Barenboim-Said yn Berlin. Roedd yn enillydd gwobr yng Nghlyweliadau Rhyngwladol YCAT 2019, cyrhaeddodd rownd derfynol y concerto yng Nghystadleuaeth Cerddor Ifanc y BBC 2016, a chafodd ei enwebu gan y Barbican fel un o Sêr Newydd ECHO ar gyfer tymor 2021/22.