Ben MacDonald

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Ben MacDonald is a talented multi-instrumentalist, performer, and educator, an alumni of the Humber College Jazz and Contemporary  Music program and has undergone MA studies in Community Music at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has played with
many groups as a saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, and singer in a variety of different musical genres from contemporary music, klezmer, jazz, and African (Sudanese, Swahili) styles. Performances have included Nhapi-Tapi, The Human Rights Reggae Band, and Yuka Funk which he was co-founder of.  Artists and groups performed with include Walleed Abdullahamid, Joe Sealey, Deserée, Jully Black, and the The Nathaniel Dett Chorale. He most recently performed with the Canadian Opera Company in Aportia Cryptych, a new work created by Haui and Sean Mayes,playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and saxophone.

As an educator, he has taught individual students privately for over  15 years with Elite Music Academy, Classical Music Conservatory, and Community Music Schools of Toronto, where he has lead and developed  a choir program for at-risk-youth in the Jane and Finch area.

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He has also co-founded Safe Spaceship Music, a collective of contemporary recording artists, producers and songwriters in a professional recording studio developing aspiring and emerging artists.

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