is a baritone, conductor, pianist, and teacher currently studying with Wendy Nielsen and Alain Coulombe in the University of Toronto opera program. He completed his Bachelor of Music at Laurier in 2022, where he studied with Leslie Fagan and was the recipient of the Laurier Alumni Gold Medal. He was a finalist for the UofT Norcop Prize in Song (2023), winner of the Laurier Concerto Competition (2021), and the recipient of RCMPI’s Kay McKie Award for Artistic Excellence (2023). Recent solo performances include Fauré’s Requiem (Musicians of the KWS), Barone Douphol/Dottore Grenvil in Verdi’s La Traviata (KWS), John Brooke in Adamo’s Little Women (Opera Laurier), Atlas in Lysistrata Reimagined (UofT Opera première), Billy Bigelow in Carousel (Cambridge Symphony/P&P Productions), Brahms’ Ein Deutsch’s Requiem (Symphony in the Barn), and Duruflé’s Requiem (Grand Philharmonic Choir). He will be appearing as Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon (UofT Opera) later this month. Ben has served as the music director for both Royal City Musical Productions (Cabaret & Matilda) and The Downtown Theatre Project (Company, The Last Five Years, & In View: The Lyrics of Gord Downie), as the assistant conductor of the Laurier Symphony Orchestra, and as the apprentice conductor of the Stratford Concert Choir. He formed his own KW-based choral and chamber ensemble in 2022 and has since conducted première performances of Justin Lapierre’s Messe de Ste. Anne and Stabat Mater, with a third collaboration scheduled for this June.
