Ben Rieke (b. 2000) is a composer and pianist from Naperville, Illinois. He has previously won awards from the SNM NY Federation of Music Clubs, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, ASCAP, Tribeca New Music and NYC’s Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. Ensembles and musicians that have performed Ben’s work include JACK quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Bent Frequency, the Resonance Collective, the Indiana University Concert Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and Irvine Arditti. He recently graduated from Juilliard’s MM composition program studying with Andrew Norman and is currently at the Yale School of Music as a DMA candidate studying with Katherine Balch, Christopher Theofanidis and Martin Bresnick. Before that, he studied at Indiana University, obtaining BMs in music composition and piano performance, studying with P.Q. Phan, David Dzubay, Claude Baker, Don Freund and Roberto Plano. At IU, he also obtained a BS in computer science. Among other interests are a lasting passion for rock music and a morbid fascination with artificial intelligence, his specialization during computer science studies.
