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Ben Michaels

Cello

ORCHESTRAL WORK

  • The Hallé, Trial for Tutti (now ended 2022-2023)
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • London Sinfonietta – including principal
  • London Chamber Orchestra, Co-principal
  • English Touring Opera - Co-principal
  • New Adventures, Matthew Bourne’s “The Car Man”
  • Suffolk Philharmonic - Co-principal


SESSION & FILM WORK

  • Isobel Griffiths Ltd
  • David Hockney’s Lightroom for Nico Muhly
  • Netflix film work including Maestro & Bridgerton Season 3


CHAMBER WORK

  • The Hill Quartet 2021 & 2022   
    • Britten Pears Young Artists   
    • West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival
    • North York Moors Chamber Festival   
    • Petworth Music Festival
    • Kings Lynn Festival
    • West Cork Chamber Music Festival   
    • Conway Hall
    • Hay-on-Wye Festival   
    • Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival
    • Artists in Residence - Wolfson College, Oxford
    • Jubilee Hall, Snape Maltings University


SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

  • Keith Harvey Award, Biannual Award for a cellist under 30, to support album recording and set of commissions (2022)
  • Help Musicians UK, Ian Flemming Award (2019) & Postgraduate Award (2018 & 2020)
  • The Countess of Munster, Derek Butler Award (2018) & Postgraduate Award (2019)
  • The Craxton Memorial Trust, Postgraduate Award (2019)
  • Emanuel Hurwitz Charitable Trust, Scholarship for Study (2018)
  • Scholarships to the Royal Academy of Music
    • Jenny Ward Clarke Scholarship supporting Professional Diploma (2020) and Masters (2018)
    • Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize (2019 & 2020) for performance
    • Lesley Alexander Award (2021) for final recital performance
    • Alexander Kelly Memorial Award, as part of the Hill Quartet (2020)


EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

  • Royal Academy of Music
    • Chamber Music Fellow (2020 – 2022)
    • Professional Diploma with Professor John Myerscough (2020 – 2021)
    • MA DipRAM, with Professor Felix Schmidt (2018 – 2020)
    • Baroque cello tuition from Andrew Skidmore and Joe Crouch
  • University of Cambridge, Clare College - MA, MSci, Biochemistry 2.i (2012 – 2016)

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Instruments
Cello, Baroque Cello