Ben has just returned from a few days assisting Manfred Honeck and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in their celebration of Mahler’s birth. Watch the broadcast here.

Ben will be Assistant Conductor at Mahler Chamber Orchestra several times over the next few months. Having assisted Manfred Honeck this July (Mahler Jubilee) he will work with Daniel Harding on Verdi’s Otello and Kent Nagano on Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, at Festspielhaus Baden Baden and various other European cities.

He will also assist Emmanuelle Haïm on a new production of Giulio Cesare at the Opéra de Paris this coming January.

Further details on the diary page.

Next season Ben will make debuts at the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (in March 2011, conducting a programme including Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony), the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo (in December 2010, conducting Messiah), the Gävle Symfoniorkester (Fauré’s Requiem in April 2011) and the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester in Denmark (Christmas concerts in December 2011).

Replacing an indisposed Rumon Gamba, Ben made a very successful debut with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra on Thursday 22nd April.

Programme:

Schumann orch. Ravel — Carnaval

Boccherini — Cello Concerto in Bb (with soloist Andreas Brantelid)

Schumann — Symphony no.1

Programme announced for Ben’s concert with Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir and Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra on October 17th:

Purcell — Now does the glorious day appear (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary)
Purcell — Pavane & Chaconne in G minor
Purcell — Arise my Muse (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary)
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Handel — Concerto Grosso in Bb op.3 no.2
Handel — ‘Utrecht’ Jubilate