Discipline: Music Composition

Benjamin Phelps

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
More: www.benphelpscomposer.com
Ben Phelps worked on music for his new genre-bending music project, which was called "The B Band" during his time in residence. Passionate about dragging art music out of the corner where it's been hiding, he's a celebrated young percussionist and composer.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Benjamin Phelps worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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