Ben's life with music started when he pestered his parents for a violin at age 3. Finally caving into his whining, they bought him one, and he has been screeching away on it and writing music ever since.

Most recently Ben worked as an additional music composer on the video game Star Wars Outlaws. He has also written the music for several films, including the documentary "Coming Out" and the short film "Femme," both by  filmmaker Alden Peters. Ben's score for "Sputnik" was a finalist for the 2018 Berlin International Film Scoring Competition.
His concert music has since been performed in festivals and concerts around the country,  including Maine's Atlantic Music Festival. Credits include "Collide-o-Scope"—a 15-minute work commissioned by the Seattle Youth Symphony—and premiering 3 orchestral pieces as the 2018-2019 Illinois Philharmonic Composer-in-Residence. 

Ben also holds a Masters Degree in Film Score Composition from the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program at the Seattle Film Institute, where he studied with Emmy award-winner Hummie Mann.
He has  an affinity for the outdoors, metal music, and drinking as much coffee as humanly possible.