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"hypnotic and absorbing" — Michael Strickland, San Francisco Civic Center "a look, perhaps, into a different dimension … the music sounds like something 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.
Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean coming June 2, 2017 on Infrequent Seams!
Summer 2017 Tour Dates:
June 22, 2017 — New York, NY at Willow Place Auditorium: Panthalassa CD release party at the Infrequent Seams festival
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 Performance with Gabby Fluke-Mogul at Studio Grand, with Honor Lacin and Nate Wheeler
July 6, 2017 — San Francisco, CA Panthalassa at Luggage Store presented by Outsound
July 8, 2017 — New Haven, CT Panthalassa at Never Ending Books presented by Uncertainty Music, with The Ghost and Krem On Wool
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
September 11, 2017 — Berlin, Germany Performance at Madame Claude with Areal Cabado
Recent Performances:
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.