Ben Sansom

Concertino Violin

BEN SANSOM completed an MA Degree in Architecture at the Royal College of Art before crossing Kensington Gore to study Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music with Catherine Mackintosh and Andrew Manze.

Since then his playing has taken him all over the world (Australia, Canada, Venezuela....) with many of the leading period-instrument orchestras (Hanover Band, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sonnerie....) and exciting new chamber groups (Apollo & Pan, Arte Resoluta, Denner Ensemble....).

Ben has broadcast as a soloist on BBC Radio 3 and France Musique, and plays a violin of 1710, made in the very heart of Paris (within a stone's throw of the Palais du Louvre) by one of the top luthiers of 18th-century France, Jacques Bocquay. A small renaissance violin, and a big baroque viola often vie for his attention too!