Ben Goldscheider, Philharmonia Orchestra & Lee Reynolds
Biography Ben Goldscheider, Philharmonia Orchestra & Lee Reynolds
Ben Goldscheider
Nominated by the Barbican as an ECHO Rising Star, during the 2021/22 season Ben gives recitals at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Kölner Philharmonie.
He makes his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo at the Barbican.
In 2022 he returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal to give a solo recital and to Wigmore Hall with Mahan Esfahani, Nicholas Daniel and Adam Walker.
Highlights over the last year have included the release by Three Worlds Records of Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain. He returned to Wigmore Hall and made his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Ben is a member of the Pierre Boulez Ensemble and principal horn of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions and a BBC Young Musician Concerto Finalist in 2016.
Lee Reynolds
is a British-born conductor based in Germany, with a reputation for bringing intensity and exceptional detail to his performances. He has led numerous concerts, broadcasts and recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded Ravel L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with VOPERA and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (which won the Sky Arts Award for Opera), and made his debut recording with the Philharmonia with Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. Other highlights include conducting Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Nederlandse Reisopera, four world premieres at Glyndebourne, performances with the New Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Dublin Concert Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Kraków, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Lee is the Associate Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Philharmonia Orchestra
Founded in 1945, the Philharmonia is a world-class symphony orchestra for the 21st century. Based in London at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, and with a thriving national and international touring schedule, the Philharmonia creates thrilling performances for a global audience.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the Orchestra’s sixth Principal Conductor, following in the footsteps of Otto Klemperer, Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Christoph von Dohnányi and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The Philharmonia is a registered charity that relies on funding from a wide range of sources to deliver its programme and is proud to be generously supported by Arts Council England. It performs around 50 concerts a year at its Southbank Centre home. Under its key conductors, the Philharmonia has created a series of critically-acclaimed, visionary projects, distinctive for both their artistic scope and supporting live and digital content.
The Philharmonia is orchestra-in-residence at venues and festivals across England: Bedford Corn Exchange, De Montfort Hall in Leicester, The Marlowe in Canterbury, Anvil Arts in Basingstoke, the Three Choirs Festival in the West of England, and Garsington Opera. At the heart of the Orchestra’s residencies is an outreach and engagement programme that empowers people in every community to engage with, and participate in, orchestral music. Internationally, the Philharmonia is active across Europe, Asia and the USA.
The Philharmonia’s reputation in part derives from its extraordinary recording legacy, which in the last 10 years has been built on by its pioneering work with digital technology. VR experiences featuring music by Sibelius, Mahler and Beethoven, placing the viewer at the heart of the orchestra, have been presented at Southbank Centre and internationally.
