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UPCOMING
March 13, 2026 :: Amherst, MA @ The Drake :: solo accordion alongside Kryssi & Wednesday, Ganesh+Wolfe, DJ MentalDrift
March 20, 2026 :: New York, NY @ St. Michael's Church :: Mymerian NYC premieres with Laura Cetilia & Mike Bullock
April 8, 2026 :: Berlin, Germany @ KM28 :: solo accordion alongside Melissa Achten & James Ilgenfritz
April 14, 2026 :: Berlin, Germany @ Unerhörte Musik :: Ghost Ensemble & Harmonic Space Orchestra (Lamb, Macklay, Rewild)
Mymerian :: original works for organ, quarter-tone accordion, cello, and contrabass
with Laura Cetilia and Mike Bullock at Epsilon Spires coming 5/1/2026, Sedimental
interius/exterius Ghost Ensemble / Catherine Lamb LP 5/2025, greyfade
"a breathtaking collaboration that expands the boundaries of harmonic perception ... a vast, resonant world of sound, where every listening reveals infinite layers of beauty" Don Haugen, Igloo
Rewild CD with Ghost Ensemble 10/2024, New World Records
"gorgeous … arresting … serene, slowly unfolding shapes … lingering, unspooling and evading time … suggesting an eternal process" Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Best Contemporary Classical
Aurogeny 2CD — accordion, string quartet, & ensemble works 12/2023, Infrequent Seams
"consistently fascinating ... mysterious ... pulsating, scintillating music is realised brilliantly ... with momentous results" Julian Cowley, The Wire
"epic symphony of accordion mastery ... some of the most powerful experimental music of the last 12 months or more" Noel Gardner, Buzz
Wounded Keens prepared accordion improvisations 2017/2023
Recorded live on tour 2014-2017, self-released 2023. All proceeds to Gaza relief organizations [Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Gaza Soup Kitchen, and Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance; this list may be updated]
"likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening."
Stephen Smoliar, The Rehearsal Studio
"cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread"
Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
"a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval"
Meg Wilhoite, Meg's New Music Blog
"gargantuan, glacially paced ... sprawling, fantastic"
HypIreStition Ruins
"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
The Process Podcast with Doug Bielmeier, discussing Rewild
the Infuse podcast: Ben Richter re-accorde son accordéon pour jouer avec la microtonalité
15 Questions interview with Tobias Fischer (text)
PRXLUDES interview with Zygmund de Somogyi (text)
KCBX Arts Beat: Ghost Ensemble's "Sensuous Sounds" interview with Melanie Senn and Sky Macklay (text/audio)
Other Minds Podcast: Ghost Ensemble interview with Joseph Bohigian and Sky Macklay (audio)
SURROUNDSCAPES: The Future of Music interview with Graeme Harrison (audio)
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.
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