Benjamin Sheen, currently Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most established organists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed as ‘brilliant' by the New York Times, he is the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition 2013. Before moving back to Oxford in January of this year, he spent seven years in New York City working at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue.
Ben began his musical career as a chorister for six years at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, under the direction of John Scott, during which time he gained a music scholarship to Eton College. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School and is also a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and the 2011 recipient of the Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. As a concert organist, Mr. Sheen has performed throughout Europe, the USA and Australia and also, recently, in Hong Kong and Singapore. He has performed with notable orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London Sinfornia and Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York City), and appeared on BBC radio and television several times. Recent highlights have included several complete performances of J. S. Bach’s ClavierÜbung III, including live on New York’s classical radio station WQXR in November 2014. After the untimely death of John Scott in 2015, Mr. Sheen took up the post of Acting Organist and Director of Music for the season, directing the choir on a domestic tour of the USA and also for performances at the AAM Convention in Stamford and AGO National Convention in Houston.
Mr. Sheen’s growing international reputation has seen him perform throughout the United States of America, Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018, he was a featured artist at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists, held in Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Sheen is exclusively represented in North America and Canada by Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
