Celebrity Brass Recital: Ben Goldsheider (French Horn) and Simon Callaghan (Piano)
The Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£15
£10 under 16s, over 60s
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Ben Goldscheider - French horn
Simon Callaghan - Piano
Bax
Horn Sonata
Dyson
My Birthday
Vaughan Williams
Horn Sonata (completed by Martin Yates)
Dyson
Epigrams
Ruth Gipps
Triton, Op. 60
Alwyn
Sonata alla toccata
Huw Watkins
Lament
York Bowen
Horn Sonata, Op. 101
Ben Goldscheider has premiered over 50 new works for horn, spanning concerti, solo, chamber, and cross-genre projects—including those incorporating live electronics and lighting. In the 2025–26 season, he gives world premiere performances of Sirens by Anna Clyne with the London Mozart Players, and Laurence Osborn’s Horn Concerto with Manchester Camerata.
Born in London in 1997, Ben studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Susan Dent and in 2020 Ben completed his studies with honours at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Radek Baborák. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions, Concerto Finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, and an ECHO Rising Star for the 2021/22 season nominated by the Barbican, London.
Simon Callaghan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in parallel with a highly successful career as a recording artist. A favourite performer at the internationally-renowned Husum Festival of Piano Rarities in Germany, Callaghan’s recent sell-out concert was praised by VAN Magazine as a “cleverly curated recital full of discoveries” and by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “technically brilliant”. Callaghan has developed a wide following and appears on a regular basis in the UK’s major concert halls, and on tours to Asia, North America and Europe.
Simon Callaghan’s distinguished and eclectic discography includes recordings for Hyperion, Nimbus and Lyrita. He has a strong profile on BBC Radio3 and on a variety of streaming platforms, his most recent single on Apple Music with Coco Tomita surpassing 1 million streams in the first month of its release. He is a strong social media enthusiast, using it as a form of promotion for classical music in general but seeing it as a particular tool in his advocacy of the rare and unexplored.