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Ben started working professionally as a pianist/keyboardist, arranger and musical director in his local
theater and clubs at the age of 16. His shows and appearances in music reviews received acclaim in
local papers for his performances and arrangements, particularly his unique spin on Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue.”
At the age of 19, Ben moved to New York to study jazz performance and composition at the New
School University in Greenwich Village. Ben developed a love for the urban landscape and intense,
improvised music he was experienced there.
Over the last 8 years, Ben has become an invaluable player in the Boston music scene, with
musicians too numerous to count, across multiple genres including jazz, R&B, fusion, gospel, funk,
punk and rock. He’s also worked with international performers including John Blackwell (Prince, P.
Diddy, Justin Timberlake), Jordan Knight (NKOTB), Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen) and more.
With such a broad spectrum of musical styles and gigs, Ben has developed an incredibly varied
repertoire and palate of musical techniques, which he balances with the finer points of mechanics
imbued in him by the great piano teachers who laid the foundation of his work.
Ben has toured the U.S., Canada and Japan. In Japan, Ben found a huge fan base where music
lovers raved over the original compositions and arrangements he wrote for the Boston Horns, a
Boston-based funk band. “Pink Polyester”, one of Ben’s songs, has been featured on numerous
Japanese CD compilations, downloaded thousands of times, and aired on radio stations all over the
world since its release on the Boston Horns’ “Bring on the Funk,” produced by P-Vine Records in
2006.
When he’s not busy gigging, Ben keeps busy producing, engineering, arranging and playing for
artists; composing and programming for local independent films and soundtrack libraries (Boston and
New York), and pitching music to ad agencies and Hollywood film and TV studios as part of the
“Firstseed Productions” team in LA. Ben also started his own production company, RPG Studios,
providing custom music, compositions and arrangements for media organizations and independent
artists. Also a natural teacher, Ben leads a select group of students using his own methods, and
variations of those taught to him by his masters. Ben’s also writing a book about developing inner
time, and learning to play music by using rhythm as a coordinating and guiding force.
theater and clubs at the age of 16. His shows and appearances in music reviews received acclaim in
local papers for his performances and arrangements, particularly his unique spin on Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue.”
At the age of 19, Ben moved to New York to study jazz performance and composition at the New
School University in Greenwich Village. Ben developed a love for the urban landscape and intense,
improvised music he was experienced there.
Over the last 8 years, Ben has become an invaluable player in the Boston music scene, with
musicians too numerous to count, across multiple genres including jazz, R&B, fusion, gospel, funk,
punk and rock. He’s also worked with international performers including John Blackwell (Prince, P.
Diddy, Justin Timberlake), Jordan Knight (NKOTB), Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen) and more.
With such a broad spectrum of musical styles and gigs, Ben has developed an incredibly varied
repertoire and palate of musical techniques, which he balances with the finer points of mechanics
imbued in him by the great piano teachers who laid the foundation of his work.
Ben has toured the U.S., Canada and Japan. In Japan, Ben found a huge fan base where music
lovers raved over the original compositions and arrangements he wrote for the Boston Horns, a
Boston-based funk band. “Pink Polyester”, one of Ben’s songs, has been featured on numerous
Japanese CD compilations, downloaded thousands of times, and aired on radio stations all over the
world since its release on the Boston Horns’ “Bring on the Funk,” produced by P-Vine Records in
2006.
When he’s not busy gigging, Ben keeps busy producing, engineering, arranging and playing for
artists; composing and programming for local independent films and soundtrack libraries (Boston and
New York), and pitching music to ad agencies and Hollywood film and TV studios as part of the
“Firstseed Productions” team in LA. Ben also started his own production company, RPG Studios,
providing custom music, compositions and arrangements for media organizations and independent
artists. Also a natural teacher, Ben leads a select group of students using his own methods, and
variations of those taught to him by his masters. Ben’s also writing a book about developing inner
time, and learning to play music by using rhythm as a coordinating and guiding force.
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