Ben Capps
Cellist Ben Capps enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral principal, collaborator, and creator. Mr. Capps is serving as the director of chamber music at Georgetown University in DC, where he is also a music professor, and is principal cellist with the innovative DC based chamber orchestra Post Classical Ensemble. Mr. Capps’ artistry has been praised as “virtuosic and impassioned” while the Boston Musical Intelligencer reported that “this fearless soloist...left us in staggered disbelief”. With “dazzling technique and a fearsomely meaty tone” he has performed throughout the United States of America, Mexico, Greece, Spain, Italy, Fujian in China, the Caribbean, and throughout South Africa.
Capps had the honor of performing Schumann’s cello concerto with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, later recording an intimate version of the concerto independently. Capps has played concertos at a number of festivals in the northeast US, giving his concerto debut in Lincoln Center at age 15 with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony. Capps can be heard as a soloist, chamber musician, and or orchestral principal on LP Classics, Innova Records, Tzadik Records, Sony, and Naxos, and a collection of radio programs as well. He is dedicated to contemporary music and artforms, experimental sounds, electronics, world music, improvisational music, as well as being an advocate for sound as an integral component to wholistic healing.
