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Ben Woodward (born 1981, Little_Haywood) is active as a conductor, organist and choral director. He is also Artistic Director of Fulham Opera , which he founded in 2011. He was organist of St John's, Walham_Green from 2008 til 2018. He is currently on the music staff at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater in Flensburg, Germany

Education and Training
Woodward first studied at Chetham's School Of Music,, before becoming organ scholar at Trinity_College,_Cambridge. After graduating he moved to the U.S.A to become Assistant Organist/Organ Scholar at Christ Church Greenwich, CT.

Opera Conducting and Music Direction
Fulham Opera became known for small-scale stagings of Richard_Wagner's operas, beginning with Das_Rheingold in 2011 and culminating in 2 complete cycles of Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen in 2014. Woodward directed these musically from the piano, and wrote a sparse arrangement for a few extra instruments.

Woodward has also conducted Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer ; Suor Angelica, & Tosca (Giacomo_Puccini); Falstaff ; Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlo.

Falstaff was revived at both the Grimeborn Opera Festival at the Arcola Theatre & at Wilton's Music Hall.

As Musical Director of Regent's Opera he has conducted & played Mozart's Marriage of Figaro La Boheme and Verdi's Rigoletto.

Music Arrangement & Editing
As well as his work on Fulham Opera's Ring Cycle, Woodward has arranged reductions of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra & Don Carlo.