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Ben Cosgrove (born 30 January 1988) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist from Methuen, Massachusetts, whose work explores the intersection of sound and place. Releases and recognition. His 2011 album, Yankee Division, is based on landscapes around New England, taking its name from the Yankee Division Highway.
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Described by the Boston Globe as “a sonic plein-air painter…
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist based in northern New England. He performs regularly all over the country, presenting a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between the folk and classical genres.
— Ben Cosgrove "...a collection of piano-driven compositions that capture both the ethereal and dynamic aspects of wildness in a built environment. Drawing from influences that range from the great instrumental impressionists (Debussy, Glass) to more modern experimentalists (Nils Frahm, Brian Eno), Cosgrove’s newest venture is a striking ...
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Ben Cosgrove performing "Montreal Song" at Sofar Boston on June 14, 2019 Sofar Sounds teamed up with Hyatt Centric to support emerging artists through a series of secret concerts hosted at...
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On "Salt," his first studio recording in three years, landscape-influenced composer/performer Ben Cosgrove pulls back from the lush orchestrations of 2014's "Field Studies" in favor of a stark, quiet, and graceful sound that relies heavily on his idiosyncratic piano work to explore landscapes of inconstancy and ambiguity.
