Arts and Performance: Ben Cosgrove House Concert 5/9/26
The Landmark Trust USA is a Dummerston-based historic preservation nonprofit that owns and manages 6 historic properties, including the 1849 Dutton Farmhouse, as overnight vacation rentals. With the support of The Windham Foundation, they worked with Brattleboro Music Center to commission composer-performer Ben Cosgrove to develop original piano pieces inspired by the Southern Vermont landscape, including a piece on the 1849 Dutton Farmhouse, which overlooks Scott Farm, also owned by the organization. The following house concert includes the premiere of this new piece of music along with many other original songs inspired by landscape, place, and environment. More can be found at landmarktrustusa.org.
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Described by the Boston Globe as “a sonic plein-air painter who uses his piano as a paintbrush,” Ben has performed in every U.S. state except for Delaware, collaborated with groups ranging from rock bands to research scientists, contributed music to several radio and film projects, and held residencies and fellowships with institutions including NASA, the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Connecticut River Museum, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. For more about Ben and his work, please visit www.bencosgrove.com.
