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"likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening." — Stephen Smoliar, The Rehearsal Studio "novel and compelling" — Avant Music News "hypnotic and absorbing" "cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread" "a look, perhaps, into a different dimension … the music sounds like some-thing incomprehensibly massive is passing by, slowly." — George Grella, The New York Classical Review |
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.
Ghost Ensemble's debut LP We Who Walk Again, featuring Wind People, is available now!
Recent Performances:
June 14, 2018 — Berlin, Germany at Joseph's with Christian Ferlaino
Ghost Ensemble: We Who Walk Again release tour
featuring Ben Richter's Wind People
and Macklay, Oliveros, Smith, Hirsch, Stepancic, Cooper
and Macklay, Oliveros, Smith, Hirsch, Stepancic, Cooper
April 20, 2018 — New York
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— DiMenna Center for Classical Music
May 17, 2018 — San Francisco, CA
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— Center for New Music
May 19, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA
Indexical presents — Wind River
May 20, 2018 — Paso Robles, CA
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Lefondusac
May 22, 2018 — Los Angeles, CA
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— secret location
May 23, 2018 — San Diego, CA
Bread & Salt
January 7, 2018 — Beacon, NY — Ghost Ensemble North
Richter, Rothenberg, Stavros
Equinox Series, Howland Cultural Center, 7PM
January 6, 2018 — New York — Ghost Ensemble Presents:
Ghost Ensemble with David Rothenberg and
Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean
Spectrum Brooklyn, 7PM & 8:30PM
November 15, 2017 — Hudební Současnost a Baroko, Ostrava, Czechia
world premiere of new commissioned work Aurorison for voices and Renaissance instruments
September 11, 2017 — Berlin, Germany at Madame Claude with Areal Cabado
October 14, 2017 — Leipzig, Germany at GAP with Joshua Waldron
October 16, 2017 — Berlin, Germany at T Berlin with Joshua Waldron
August 28, 2017 — Ostrava Days festival, Ostrava, Czechia
world premiere of Orrorin Keen performed by Ostravska Banda
Panthalassa release tour
June 22, 2017 — New York, NY
Panthalassa CD release party
at Willow Place Auditorium
with Object Collection, Arthur Kampela & Margaret Lancaster, Providence Research Ensemble
June 28, 2017 — Montreal, Quebec
Panthalassa at Resonance Café, second set with Projet K
July 1, 2017 — Los Angeles, CA
Panthalassa at BETALEVEL with Sarah Belle Reid, Eva Aguila
July 3, 2017 — Oakland, CA
Wounded Keens at Studio Grand, with Full Moon Heart and MFB Trio
July 6, 2017 — San Francisco, CA
Panthalassa at the Luggage Store with Ives Band, presented by Outsound
July 8, 2017 — New Haven, CT
Wounded Keens at Never Ending Books with Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden,
presented by Uncertainty Music
July 12, 2017 — Boston, MA
private event with Lucia Stavros
July 13, 2017 — Cambridge, MA
Doinas & Keens at The Lily Pad, with Lucia Stavros
July 16, 2017 — Washington, DC
Panthalassa at Rhizome with Phong Tran, Jax Deluca, and Jacob Becker
Solo performance for Art's Birthday
Tuesday, January 17, 2017, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany.
Ghost Ensemble New Commissions, with Wind People (world premiere).
Thursday, December 15, 2016, Invisible Dog Art Center, New York, NY.
Ben Richter, Lucia Stavros
Saturday, August 27, 2016, Oblomov, Berlin, Germany.
Solo performance
Friday, August 5, 2016, Arcanoa, Berlin, Germany.
Ghost Ensemble at The Firehouse Space
Saturday, April 16, 2016, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Ghost Ensemble at Musical Ecologies
Thursday, April 14, 2016, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY.
Ben Richter, Lucia Stavros
Friday, April 1, 2016, Okerstraße, Berlin, Germany.
Ben Richter, Lucia Stavros, Saara Wallraf
Thursday, March 31, 2016, Mainzer7, Berlin, Germany.
Emergence with Leonie Roessler and Sohrab Motabar.
Saturday, November 28, 2015, Mainzer7, Berlin, Germany.
Ben Richter, Saara Wallraf, James Ilgenfritz, Ayumi Paul
Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Spectrum, New York, NY.
Ghost Ensemble at Pioneer Works, with Healing Ghost.
Friday, October 30, 2015, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY.
Rivulose (piano concerto) world premiere by Keiko Shichijo and the Janaček Philharmonic Orchestra.
Saturday, August 29, 2015, Ostrava Days 2015, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Solo performance
Saturday, July 11, 2015, ReFashionReFood, Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin, Germany.
Water's Edge by Wild Rumpus.
Saturday, February 28, 2015, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA.
Ghost Ensemble Winter Concert, with Samudra (world premiere).
Thursday, December 4, 2014, Barn & Bail, New York, NY.
Ghost Ensemble at Spectrum.
Friday, November 9, 2014, Spectrum, New York, NY.
The Mooncalf Ciphers by William Lang.
Sunday, July 20, 2014, Color Bklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Panthalassa (world premiere) by Ben Richter.
Sunday, July 13, 2014, EMPAC, Troy, NY.
Star Maker (world premiere) by Ghost Ensemble with David Bloom.
Saturday, May 17, 2014, Queens New Music Festival, Queens, NY.
Healing Ghost by Ghost Ensemble.
Friday, April 4, 2014, East Bank Music Series, Brooklyn, NY.
Ghost Ensemble at Spectrum.
Friday, March 28, 2014, Spectrum, New York, NY.
The Mooncalf Ciphers (world premiere) by William Lang.
Monday, February 24, 2014, DiMenna Center, New York, NY.
Innominandum (world premiere) by SEM Ensemble.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY.
The Thing from Naught (world premiere) by unique ensemble.
Saturday, November 23, 2013, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Friday, November 15, 2013, Brooklyn Conservatory, Brooklyn, NY.
Farther Reaches (world premiere) by Ostravska Banda.
Ostrava Days, August 31, 2013, Ostrava, CZ.
in the dark you can see everything (world premiere performances).
Inner Eye concert series, May-June 2013, Den Haag, NL.
Healing Ghost (world premiere) by Ghost Ensemble.
Saturday, March 23, 2013, Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY.