Ep24: Ben Costello, UK and international conductor, musical director, adjudicator, singing coach and accompanist.

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Ben Costello is a freelance conductor, musical director, adjudicator, singing coach and accompanist, working internationally. He is also Artistic Director of Thames Concerts Ltd, Founding Director of Kingston Chamber Singers, Chorus Master for the Leith Hill Musical Festivalcombined choirs concerts, Guest Conductor of the Voices of Hangzhou Youth Choir, a lecturer in musical theatre at the University of Portsmouth, and a musical director and singing coach at Laine Theatre Arts.

A specialist in musical theatre, he has been musical director for numerous productions, and a reflective product of this has been his continuing work in most of the major London performing-arts colleges includingArts Educational (London), Mountview Academy, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Guildford School of Acting, the Royal Academy of Music, the London College of Music, Starquest Performers College and the universities of London, Surrey and Kingston.  Countless of his former students enjoy successful careers in the West End and beyond.

Ben trained initially as a flautist, and subsequently majored in piano, singing and conducting.  He remains much sought-after as an outstanding accompanist in musical theatre repertoire but collaborates in a variety of genres with countless singers and instrumentalists in concerts and other performing environments. 

Ben is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, organising and chairing the Company’s annual musical direction scholarship.

Ben has been musical director with many musical theatre productions across the U.K., is a guest conductor with various choirs, and as an accompanist and coach collaborates with countless singers and instrumentalists. He judges at competitive festivals throughout the U.K. and overseas as an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals and the Schools Music Association.

Outside of music, he is a keen motorcyclist, and rides a rather heavy Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200.

https://www.bencostello.com