CURRICULUM VITAE
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BEN GLASSTONE
4 Evershot Road, London N4 3BB
0207 281 1226 mob: 07947 043 009
benglasstone@blueyonder.co.uk
Nick Quinn at The Agency, NQuinn@theagency.co.uk
Composer, writer, performer, MD and music educator
RECENT/ONGOING WRITING AND COMPOSING
In development: composer/co-writer on The Great Cat Massacre (Soho Theatre);
composer for The Tempest (RSC/Little Angel Theatre); composer/lyricist for
Alice in Wonderland (Little Angel Theatre); composer for Red Riding Hood
(Norwich Puppet Theatre)
 Music/lyrics for Pinocchio at Polka Theatre, 2008/9
 Music/lyrics for The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me at Little Angel, 2008/9
 Score for La-Di-Dada (Quicksilver/Indefinite Articles), pilot tour 2008
 Music and lyrics and MD for Fantastic Mr Fox (dir: Steve Tiplady), Little Angel
Theatre, and 3 tours including RSC’s Civic Hall and Winnipeg, Canada
 Music, lyrics, book (with Tim Kane) and performer-MD for The Mouse Queen
(dir: Steve Tiplady) at Little Angel Theatre (04/05). Mouse Queen toured to
Polka Theatre and New Victory Theatre, New York in 2005, and to Unicorn
Theatre and Hampstead Theatre 06/07;
 Soundtrack for Snow and Snuggles installation at Discover, Stratford, 2007/8
 Score for How to Beat a Giant (dir: Titania Krimpas), Unicorn Theatre 2007
 Co-writer Rags to Witches for Josh Elwell Theatre on tour 2007-8
RECENT/ONGOING COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION WORK
 Commission to write 10 songs for use with children with mental health issues for
Sing Up/Sound Minds, 2009
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 Course Leader on Make an Album in a Week at Roundhouse Studios 200409
 Music leader on Spirit Project with Hampstead Theatre for LB Camden ,
working with children 5-10 with mental health problems, 2009
 Workshop leader on Gentle Giant project for Royal Opera House 2008
 Worked with BBC on Digital Curriculum, co-designing and delivering module
on Composing music for Key Stage 2 (Dec 04 -May 05)
 Composer on large-scale Community/professional piece Human/Nature (dir:
Emily Gray) for Trestle Theatre (Nov 04-Jan 05)
 Composer/MD for “Clockwork Education Project” (Unicorn
Theatre/Philharmonia Orchestra) an opera project culminating in performance
at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House with cast of 90 children, opera
singers and musicians (Winter/Spring 2004)
 Composer/MD/music leader on composition and performance projects with The
Roundhouse, Camden, the Unicorn Theatre for children, the Lyric
Hammersmith, The London Bubble, Ladders, Kaos and many London
Primary and Secondary Schools. (2002-5)
 Musician at InnerSense (formerly The Ark) South Hill Park Arts Centre,
Bracknell, creating improvised scores for live multi-sensory theatre workshops
for adults and children with learning disabilities 1998-2008
PREVIOUS COMPOSING includes:
 Commissioned to write special song and music for the opening of the new
Unicorn Theatre on London’s South Bank 2006
 Commissioned to write Potato Suite, a song cycle for large children’s choir for
Three Rivers Festival, Surrey, 2006
 Composed Banana - a slippery opera for Flight 5065 festival, performed on
the London Eye, June 05 and recorded for transmission on BBC World
 Songs The Face Song and Lunch commissioned for Nickelodeon TV – 2003
 Composer for Goldilocks (dir:Sally Goldsworthy) at Lyric Hammersmith studio
theatre (Christmas 2003/Remount at Warwick Arts Centre/Lyric 2004-5)
 Composer for Gotcha! (dir: Chris Elwell) at Half Moon E1 Autumn 02
 Composer/MD/performer for Pinocchio in the Park (dir: Emily Gray, Unicorn
Theatre) at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - Summer 2001
 The Magic Box by Erroll Lloyd (dir: Surian Fletcher-Jones) Tricycle, 2000
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PREVIOUS EDUCATION WORK includes:
 Composer and MD for Notting Hill the musical - large-scale community
musical commissioned by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
(Summer 2003)
 Music workshop leader for Ladders Young Performers and Writers songwriting, band skills, music theatre etc - 1998-2007
 Running/facilitating on music and theatre projects at Unicorn Theatre, Polka
Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Theatre and BAC among others, 97-08
 School residencies and workshops with Discover, 2006-8
 Beyond the Deathzone (Ladders) written with cast, Lloyd Park Theatre 2000
 Angelikaos (songs Ben Glasstone and Suzy Davis), Jackson’s Lane Theatre
1999
 10 short musicals for the After School Drama Club performed at the
Tabernacle and the Post Office Theatre 1997-2002
 Guitar tuition at Musicworks, Brixton and the Tabernacle Inner City Music
School, Notting Hill.
 Devising productions and workshops at over a dozen schools in London: 19952007
PERFORMING/RECORDING
Main instruments: Guitar, drum kit and percussion (including tabla)
Other instruments: keyboard, bass, ukulele.
CD releases:
 Night of the Long Spoons, Soup, 2008
 The Days (Traffic Island Discs) 2000
 Deadly Medley (Traffic Island Discs) 2003
TRAINING/QUALIFICATIONS
 Certificate in Music Workshop Skills, Goldsmiths College, University of
London, 1996 (Commendation for research work and music techniques).
 Associated Board Classical Guitar, Grade 8, 1992-3. Piano Grade 6
 BA English Literature (2.1) and Exhibition, New College, Oxford 1991.
 A levels: English (A), French (A), Greek (A), English S-level (Distinction).
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