Ben picked up the violin aged 4 and was brought up on a heady mix of the Blues, Rock 'n' Roll and Bach, touring with his singer-songwriter dad during his early teens before studying classically at the Royal College of Music, London for his Bachelor Honours degree.
A busy career since arriving in London has seen him work with bands like Arctic Monkeys, Razorlight, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp and Mark Ronson, as well as leading The Heritage Orchestra and recording/writing music for fashion shows (Alexander McQueen, Prada) TV (BBC, Nat Geo etc) and Film (Nowhere Boy).


One thing lead to another and Ben meet fellow electric violinist Linzi Stoppard. After months of hard work, sonic experimentation, determination and belief Ben followed his dreams and signed an exclusive global record deal with Linzi Stoppard in their electric rock violin group FUSE. FUSE are constantly on tour promoting their innovative album, which sets them apart from the "Classical-Crossover" cliche.

Ben & Linzi are sponsored by Swarovski, who created the world’s most expensive electric violins to celebrate their album. An exclusive pair of crystal encrusted electric violins valued at £1million each. Both violin have over 50,000 crystal individually hand applied. FUSE launched these incredible instruments in-store at Harrods, London to the world's media.

As well as their own live tours FUSE's world class reputation have made them a favourite in the global corporate / private event market. Recently international engagements have seen FUSE playing in Moscow, Mumbai, Cannes, Monaco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Calgary, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Dubai, Hong Kong, Istanbul to name a few. You can see some of these performances on YouTube where FUSE have amassed over four million views and counting.

In 2010 FUSE's live TV performances were watched around the world by an audience of over 500,000,000+

In the same year Ben became the 2-time Guinness World Record Holder for the title of the Fastest Violin Player in the World!

In November 2010 judged by Guinness World Record™ officials and musical experts Ben Lee set the new record with a performance of ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, playing on the world’s most expensive electric violin. Ben played the piece at over 14 notes per second finishing in an astonishing 58.515 seconds stripping nearly 5 seconds off the previous record.

Visit FUSE online: http://www.FUSEofficial.com

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