Ben Lunn

Biography

His music has been described as ‘evocative’, ‘restrained otherworldliness’, ‘chilling’, ‘sophisticated and most importantly obsessive’, ‘produces… glorious roaring sounds’ and ‘desolate monotone’. He has also been referred to as a ‘composer of life music’.

Ben Lunn is a Mackem composer who studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the guidance of Peter Reynolds and at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Marius Baranauskas. He has also received guidance from Param Vir. Since completing his Master’s he has lived in Glasgow, working in conducting, musicology, teaching and composing.

His work has been featured at many leading international festivals including Vale of Glamorgan, London New Wind Festival, Druskomanija, Leeds Lieder+, Zilele Muzicale Aniversare, HASS FEST, Toronto Contemporary Music Lab and Occupy the Pianos. He has had the privilege of working with leading international ensembles and soloists such as N.A.M.E.S, Sofia Soloists, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Synaesthesis, Music Theatre Wales, the Ligeti Quartet, OeNM, Ensemble X and Y, Nikolai Matsov, Rolf Hind, the Francoise-Green Duo, Zubin Kanga, Martynas Levickis, JVLMA and Jauna Muzika.

He is currently an associate artist of Drake Music, and in October he was appointed Trainee Artistic Director of the Hebrides Ensemble. Ben Lunn is also featured in the British Music Collection and in the British Council’s Disability Arts Online as a featured artist. He is published by Oriana Productions.