Performers including Clocks in Motion, Ensemble SurPlus, Ensemble 20+, the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra, Mark Hetzler, and Nick Meryhew have collaborated with Ben and in 2015 he participated in the biennial Sommerakademie at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where he studied in private lessons with Chaya Czernowin, Rebecca Saunders, and Ming Tsao. Ben holds an M.M. in Music Composition from DePaul University where he studied with Fredrick Gifford, Christopher Wendell Jones, and Seung-Won Oh and a B.M. in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied with Filippo Santoro and participated in courses with Stephen Dembski.