Ben Markovic

Organist, Piano

Ben is a London-based freelance pianist, organist, and teacher. He holds the post of Director of Music and Organist at St Mary’s, Barnes, and is studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music for a Masters’ degree in Collaborative Piano, under the tutelage of Joesph Middleton and Michael Dussek. He is active as an accompanist, having performed across London and beyond with ensembles including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the St Martin’s Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of the London Choral Sinfonia. 

​A recent graduate from the University of Cambridge, Ben read music at Queens’ College, holding the Aliki Vatikioti Organ Scholarship and both the Beament Prize and Michael Williamson Instrumental Scholarship. He was an accompanist on the Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme 2022/3, and has performed in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Iestyn Davies, Roderick Williams and Ailish Tynan. He was a finalist in the 2023 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition and is a regular accompanist with the Rodolfus Foundation and National Children’s Choir of Great Britain. In 2023/4, he held the post of Organ Scholar at St Stephen’s, Walbrook with St Martin-in-the-Fields, accompanying the renowned Choral Scholars, St Martin’s Voices Emerging Artists and Chamber Choir in services, concerts and on tour in Utrecht, and has taught piano at Tonbridge School.

​Ben holds both the Fellowship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists and the Licentiateship of Trinity College London (in piano performance), passing with distinction. He has given recitals at venues including St John’s College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge; St Edmundsbury Cathedral; Birmingham Cathedral; Worcester Cathedral.

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