Cellist Ben Rogerson is a member of the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.
He spent the Noughties with the Irish Chamber Orchestra giving concerts with artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Anthony Marwood and Nigel Kennedy in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, and the Community Centre on Inis Boffin.
His life with the BBCCO involves a more eclectic range of music making, from classical and pop concerts, to recording music for TV, film, radio and CD. Earth Wind and Fire, Kylie Minogue, and Dame Edna Everidge are amongst the artists they have worked with recently, and the orchestra is resident for Radio 2’s flagship show ”Friday Night is Music Night”.
Ben loves appearing as a guest with the Academy of St. Martin-in the-Fields, Britten Sinfonia and the English Chamber Orchestra and gives chamber music concerts with the Minerva Ensemble and Ferrer Quartet.
Solo projects have included Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No1 with Richard Hickox, and Haydn’s C Major Concerto under the baton of David Watkin, both at the Endellion Festival in Cornwall.
Ben studied at the Royal Academy of Music where his cello teacher was Derek Simpson of the Aeolian Quartet, and at SUNY Purchase, USA, with Julia Lichten of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
He has also played for many theatre productions (RSC, the National Theatre and the Globe), and has made a number of recordings, including Hans Gal’s Sinfonia Concertante with Kenneth Woods (solo cello), Philip Glass’s ”In The Penal Colony“ with Music Theatre Wales, and Bach’s ”Goldberg Variations” with the Le Page Ensemble.
For several years Ben coached the cello section of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, a role he has also fulfilled for the National Youth Orchestras of Wales, and of Great Britain, and the Royal Academy of Music. He teaches the cello at Tonbridge School and the Royal Grammar School in Guidlford.
