Benjamin Sheen, currently Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most established organists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed as ‘brilliant' by the New York Times, he is the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition 2013. Before moving back to Oxford in January of this year, he spent seven years in New York City working at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. Ben began his musical career as a chorister for six years at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, under the direction of John Scott, during which time he gained a music scholarship to Eton College. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School and is also a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

This concert concludes a weeklong residency in which Benjamin Sheen, Organist and Molly Quinn, Soprano will be working with the Cathedral Organ & Choral Scholars coaching them on various topics about sacred music - choral accompaniment, musicianship, and making a career as a 21st-century musician.