{"id":10299,"date":"2020-11-26T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=10299"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:30:29","slug":"benjamin-glossop","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/people\/benjamin-glossop\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Glossop"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Ben Glossop<\/strong> is an active bassoonist living in Ottawa. He is the principal bassoonist of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, a regular extra with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and second bassoon of the Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra. Studying with Nadina Jackson, Bruce Bower, Whitney Crocket and John Clouser, Ben received his Bachelor and Master\u2019s Degrees in Music Performance at McGill University, with a specialization in Chamber Music, in 1997. Also that year he joined the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Bel Canto Wind Quintet. He is the bassoonist of the Ayorama Wind Quintet, The Ottawa Symphony Wind Quintet, l\u2019Ensemble Prisme, and the Harmonious Pigs Reed trio. He performs regularly with Thirteen Strings, The Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Music and Beyond and many other groups in the Ottawa area.<\/p>\n<p>Ben co-directs the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra\/Carleton Ensemble-in-Residence Program. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and active teacher, working with bassoonists as well as groups from large orchestras to children with autism, he recently released his second album of his compositions \u201cFever Lines\u201d music for reeds and strings featuring the Prisme Ensemble. He is an avid outdoorsman,&nbsp;and enjoys camping with his family and&nbsp;volunteering&nbsp;&nbsp;in the community with groups like the Poets\u2019 Pathway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10300,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Benjamin","cu_people_last_name":"Glossop","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[18],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10299","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-performance-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Performance Instructor: Bassoon","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"benglossop@sympatico.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10299\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}