Ben David Aronson, Executive Director

Executive Director Ben David Aronson brings years of experience as a performer and educator to his role with The Newberry Consort. Based in Chicago, his experience as a historical trombonist performing across the United States has informed his nurturing of The Consort and of its renown as a beacon of extraordinary artistic and scholarly integrity in the world of historical music. Ben David shares The Consort’s vision for the amazing potential of what early music concerts can be: a brand new way of experiencing music of the past – of resonating with it, with the memories of the world that produced it, and with the stories it tells.

As a founding member of the period chamber ensemble Incantare, Ben David has traveled widely to appear in numerous concert series, university programs, and festivals, including with The Newberry Consort. He has also worked with many respected organizations such as Pegasus Early Music, Publick Musick, Piffaro, Dark Horse Consort, TENET, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Opera Lafayette, Atlanta Baroque, and the Washington National Cathedral Choir & Baroque Orchestra. In January of 2020, he was honored to perform in the Chiesa di San Rocco in Venice as a guest of the Dark Horse Consort for a program featuring the instrumental chamber music of Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries. In traditional classical music settings, Ben David has also worked with the Erie Philharmonic, Symphoria, Rochester Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic orchestras, and has recorded and toured internationally as a founding member of the Hohenfels Trombone Quartet.

Prior to relocating to Chicago from New York State, Ben David taught on the faculties of SUNY Geneseo, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Nazareth University, the Eastman Community Music School, and the Hochstein School of Music & Dance. He serves as the treasurer for Pegasus Early Music. Ben David holds a DMA from the Eastman School of Music, and is deeply grateful to all his mentors and students. He strives to honor and pass on their gifts whenever given the opportunity.