User:Ben stevenson07

Benjamin Stevenson, or as ke likes to be known, Ben Stevenson, was born on the 10th November 1991 in Scunthorpe. His mother had tubercolosis, and people thought he would not survive, but he did.

From an early age it was clear he was interested in music and by the age of 6 he started playing the piano. When he was 9, he took up the oboe. He has reached a very high standard on both of these insruments, gaining grade 8 piano and grade 7 oboe. He has recently started playing the cor anglais and has once played on the Armenian oboe, the dudook.

He now is taught the piano by Caroline Clemmow, famous pianst and Wife of Anthony Goldstone. Together the team are Britain's best piano duetists and have recorded many Cd's.

He has had 8 oboe teachers during his 6 year oboe career andis just starting on his 9th, Wynne Harries, head of Lincolnshire Music support service.

He plays in many bands and orchestras on the oboe including the Lincolnshire Youth Symphony Orchestra and there have been talks of a possible oboe concerto being planned.