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Ben Green, winner of the NSO's 2000 Henry and Gertrude Lasker Young Soloist Competition, is seventeen and a junior at Newton North High School, where he is a straight A honors student. He has studied piano since the age of six. In 1997, he won the All Newton Music School's Concerto Competition playing Kabalevsky's Third Piano Concerto. However, since time constraints prevented the ANMS orchestra from learning the Kabalevsky concerto, Ben performed the third movement of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto at the subsequent competition winner's concert.
A multitalented instrumentalist, Ben plays the clarinet in the Newton North wind ensemble and timpani in the Newton North orchestra. He also plays the ukulele in his free time. Ben is also involved with several musical theatre productions. In November 2000, he was the musical director and accompanist for the Newton North production of Honk!, the first high school performance of this musical in the United States. And in early June 2001 Ben will be the pianist for Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Last year, Ben was also the accompanist for the Newton North improv troupe.
Ben is a member of two piano trios, one at Newton North and one at the New England Conservatory. Ben is also an accomplished composer. He spent last summer at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he participated in the selective Young Artists Composition Program -- one of ten of the most talented high-school-aged composers from all over the country. He also sang in the Tanglewood Young Artists Chorus. Ben currently studies piano at the New England Conservatory with Margaret Bachelder.
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