Ben presents a film for Morning Live exploring the benefits of using music to improve your running. He meets Prof. Costas Karageorghis, an expert in Sport and Exercise psychology at Brunel University of London to drill down into his decades long research in this field.
There may also be some experiments involving treadmills, athletes and running tracks along the way!
15th March 2025 - Aviva Studios
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Aviva Studios for an extraordinary immersive experience. From a brand new electro-acoustic work by Anna Clyne, PALETTE, to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, John Adams to Tom Adès, conductor and BBC presenter Ben Gernon guides us through this eclectic setlist.
Ben conducts the combined forces of the Brighton Philharmonic and the Brighton Festival Chorus for a bombastic programme of Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with soloist Cody Quattlebaum.
Jess and Ben share their favourite tracks, from Stevie Wonder to Mozart, Boulanger to Pärt.
This Classical Life on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
Ben conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican on the 21st November in a programme of:
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Beethoven: Symphony no.6
Cassie Kinoshi: HEART (premiere) with seed.ensemble
Tickets and more info here: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/lso-x-cassie-kinoshis-seed-21-nov-24/
Ben conducts the final of BBC Young Musician 2024 in Bristol Beacon with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
You can see highlights on BBC Two and iPlayer on 20th October, and watch the grand final in full on BBC Four.
Ben conducts the BBC Philharmonic in three concerts this October. Featuring music by Schubert, Mozart, Elgar, Bruch and others. Performances will be in Hanley, Malvern and Media City.
Ben will be reviewing new releases with Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, Saturday 19th October.
To mark Gerard Schurmann’s Centenary, Ben, the BBC Philharmonic and pianist Xiayin Wang have recorded a new disc of his orchestral works.
Hear Ben’s insights on Holst’s The Planets on BBC Radio 4’s How to Play
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022t6x
Next season Ben returns to his favourite orchestras for a wide variety of concerts, CD and studio recordings and TV films. More info to come soon.
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.
