Ben will be joining Andrew McGregor live on BBC Radio 3, Saturday 24th February, to build a library of recordings of Ravel’s complete Mother Goose. 10.30am.
Ben presents and conducts the first episode of a new series of Inside Classical for BBC Four, airing on Sunday 25th February at 8pm
On 16th November 2023 Ben returns to Glyndebourne to conduct an evening of much loved arias and classic opera ensemble pieces in a celebration of leading international singers and stars of the future.
In November Ben is recording a CD of Gerard Schurmann for Chandos with the BBC Philharmonic and Xiayin Wang. They will also perform in a studio concert on Wednesday 8th November.
Looking ahead to December, Ben and the orchestra return to Victoria Hall, Hanley, for a programme of Haydn, Mozart with Martin Roscoe and Prokofiev’s Cinderella.
Ben joins Cerys Matthews, Jeffrey Boakye and Emma Rawicz to add more tracks to the playlist! From K-Pop to Disco, Malambos to emotional narratives, hear the episode on BBC Radio 4 on 27th October.
On Wednesday 27h September, Ben will be joining a live discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row: Are maestros behaving badly?
Welcome to Monsters of Music, a new ten part podcast series on BBC Sounds which delves into the lives of classical music’s most famous (and monstrous?) composers. In each episode host Tom Allen is joined by co-presenter Ben Gernon and a celebrity guest to hear the stories, intrigue and scandal to decide how monstrous these composers really were.
When conductor Ben Gernon tells people what he does, he’s almost always met with the same response “oh how fascinating… now tell me, what do you actually do?” It’s a universally unanswered question.
In The Silent Musician, Ben answers that question, charting a sonically rich and provocative ride through the conducting jungle, and opening our ears to the possibilities in performance that different conductors create. He unlocks the traditions and sound worlds of our best orchestras, and explores what happens to the music making when there is no conductor.
The first three months of the year have seen Ben conduct five concerts with the BBC Philharmonic, in a huge variety of repertoire, with soloists Victor Julien- Laferièrre, Martin Roscoe, Juan Pérez Floristán and Alban Gerhardt.
This festive season Ben conducts the BBC Philharmonic on Friday 9th December- An Enchanting Advent and presents What Walls Hold on Christmas Day- 6.45pm BBC Radio 3.
Ben will make his Glyndebourne Festival 2023 debut conducting Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.
Opera is a particular passion of Ben’s, and he has previously conducted Glyndebourne Tours of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. He has conducted the Magic Flute for both ENO and Royal Swedish Opera, as well as Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro for Stuttgart Opera.
Oslo Philharmonic: 6th October
Anna Clyne, Prokofiev and Bartok
BBC Philharmonic: 20th October, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
Dukas, Elgar and Walton
BBCSO and Zadie Smith- Barbican - 22nd April
CBSO Queen’s Platinum Jubilee- Symphony Hall- 2nd June
OSL DeGaetano Composition Institute- Manhattan School of Music- 15th June
Written and presented by Ben, with producer and co-writer Rose Baker, An Archive on Four which explores 60 years of colourful, complex, cringeworthy encounters between artists and politicians.
Saturday 2nd April on BBC Radio 4, 8pm
Ben reviews the latest recordings of orchestral music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Gershwin and Varèse with Andrew McGregor.
10.40 am Saturday 12th March on BBC Radio 3
A unique concert experience programmed by the CBSO’s Youth Ambassadors
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60153376
Ben will conduct the BBC Philharmonic in works by Margaret Bonds, Joseph Bologne and Ali Osman as part of Radio 3’s Afternoon Concert, live from Media City
Live on Radio 3 from Media City on Thursday 27th January 2022…
… and a return to Royal Concert Hall Nottingham Friday 28th January
It is a great pleasure to announce that Ben has joined Arlington, home to some of the UK’s most well respected broadcasters and talent.
Ben returns to the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic on Tuesday 3rd August for a programme of:
Haydn Symphony no 103 Drumroll
Mozart Piano Concerto no. 23 with Elizabeth Brauss
Beethoven Symphony no 4