Exciting young American cellist Ben Capps enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist and chamber musician.   His artistry has been praised as “most appealing” by the New York Times, “virtuosic and impassioned” by the Barre Montpelier Times, the Holland Times hailed Capps as a “young cello phenomenon from New York” with “dazzling technique and a fearsomely meaty tone”. 

In September 2014 LP Classics released Ben Capps’ newest disc: Ossia, music of Bach, Schumann & Fitzenhagen for solo cello & company. Ben Capps can also be heard on Innova Records with two discs of music for solo cello by contemporary composer Andrew Violette & on Tzadik Records with a collaborative cello & electronics piece by Anna Clyne called Fits & Starts which was featured for a week on WQXR in New York.

He has performed in varying capacities at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Mann Hall in Tel Aviv, Meyerson Hall in Dallas, and the Auditorio Nacional, the Palace of Fine Arts and Sala Nezahualcoytl in Mexico City.   

Recent performance highlights include an unaccompanied recital tour in the Midwest , a recital tour of China (Xiamin, Fouzhou and Gulangyu), and recital appearances in New York, Greece and Spain as well as a performance of all five Beethoven sonatas and more in Vermont.  

Ben Capps plays a William Forester cello built in 1782 in England.

Equipement used:
Vsthosts
VST free & demos
Dell Optiplex core i7  3.4 GHz 8Go ram
Roland ep7e (1992)- Midy5 Cavagnolo (1983)
played live (whithout pre-recording, arranging, editing)

Playing the piano, i am nowadays composing pieces for stringquartet, woodwinds, orchestra, but mostly jazz, loungemusic, etc.
Usually my compositions are realized with CUBASE and several virtual instruments.

"eh" often = "ain't", and if you don't spot this you will be confused by missing the negative.
Mountain chicken = frog (known as "crapaud" in Dominica).
"de Doctor" referred to at the end of the poem is Dr. Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad at that time.
"Who tell he say dat" [a Trini expression]  meaning  "what a stupid thing to say" or "he didn't need to say that".
"mad" doesn't mean "angry"; it means "insane".

TANTI AT DE OVAL  by Paul Keens-Douglas Copyright (c) 1976 by P.K.D
Sixths Sheep "ANTI AT DE OVAL" Podcast Episode by Textbook Musical Exercises is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

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