Friday Music Series: Ben Capps

Cellist Ben Capps enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral principal, collaborator, and creator. Capps has appeared as recitalist and principal cellist at major performance venues throughout the world, touring extensively and recording as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. Capps currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Georgetown University, where he leads the chamber music department. Capps is the principal cellist with the innovative DC-based chamber orchestra Post Classical Ensemble, and can be heard in concert around the DMV with other exciting groups such as the Inscape Chamber Orchestra. Capps can be heard as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal on LP Classics, Innova Records, Tzadik Records, Sony, and Naxos. He was also featured on Vermont Public Radio and in concert performing the complete cello sonatas of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, & Brahms. Capps is dedicated to contemporary music and art forms, experimental sounds, electronics, and world music. NYC-born, Capps holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Juilliard, where he served as a teaching assistant to David Soyer and Bonnie Hampton. When not playing cello or teaching music, Capps enjoys listening to and improvising music, ocean sports, yoga, and camping.

Host or Publisher Georgetown University Dept. of Performing Arts