Ben Kazez singing with Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court

“Authoritatively weighty as Jesus.”

★★★★★

Bachtrack

Ben Kazez with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Philharmonie de Paris

“The revelation of the evening. What a singer!”

ConcertoNet

Photo Vincent Pontet
Ben Kazez on a stone staircase

Handel’s Semele with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna

His Italian debut, 23 and 25 October 2026

Photo Vincent Pontet

Grosser Herr (Christmas Oratorio)

La Cetra broadcast / Andrea Marcon, 2025 · YouTube

Ben Kazez singing at the Église Saint-Nicolas for Festival Toulouse les Orgues

Ravel, Poulenc and Schubert at Toulouse les Orgues

Église Saint-Nicolas, with Laurens de Man, organ, October 2024

Une nymphe (Lorbeer)

Chimaera Trio, 2025 · YouTube

Written for Ben Kazez by Niels Lorbeer

Sea Slumber Song (Elgar Sea Pictures)

Vlieland Chamber Music Festival, 2025 · YouTube

Ben Kazez seated on stone steps, smiling

“A velvety and full voice.”

Barcelona Clàssica

Bach and Handel with Europe’s leading period orchestras; Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven and new music in recital.

Biography
Photo Vincent Pontet
Ben Kazez singing with the Academy of Ancient Music

Schedule

More dates to be announced.

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Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder (Matthew Passion)

Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht · YouTube

Dover Beach (Barber)

Vlieland Bunker Museum, 2025 · YouTube

Auf der Bruck (Schubert)

Laurens de Man, 2025 · YouTube

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Past highlights

Les Arts Florissants and William Christie at the Philharmonie de Paris Photo Vincent Pontet

Grands motets of Rameau and Mondonville

William Christie sets two visions of the French sacred grand motet side by side, Rameau’s erudite and meticulously built writing against Mondonville’s.

Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Chapelle Royale, Versailles
September and October 2026

About the project
Ben Kazez with the Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court

The Chosen One

Leipzig, 1723. The city needs a Thomaskantor, and Bach is not on the shortlist. Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music hear the candidates, Telemann and Graupner among them, largely through their own audition cantatas.

Milton Court, London, and West Road, Cambridge
April 2026