- Choral worship: 11am
- Recital: 2:30pm
Benjamin Sheen, currently Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most established organists. Hailed as ‘brilliant’ by the New York Times, he is the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St Alban’s International Organ Competition 2013. Before moving back to Oxford in 2020, he spent seven years in New York City working at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. After the untimely death of John Scott in 2015, Ben took up the post of Acting Organist and Director of Music for the season, directing the choir on a domestic tour of the USA and also for performances at the Association of Anglican Musicians Convention in Stamford, Connecticut, and the American Guild of Organists National Convention in Houston, Texas.
Ben began his musical career as a chorister for six years at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, under the direction of John Scott, during which time he gained a music scholarship to Eton College. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School and is also a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and the 2011 recipient of the Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. As a concert organist, Ben has performed throughout Europe, the USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has performed with notable orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and Orchestra of St Luke’s (New York City), and appeared on BBC radio and television several times.
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