Ben Matus enjoys a varied career in music: bringing to life music regardless of whether it was written in the Middle Ages or yesterday. Ben performs with early music groups on various bassoons, dulcians, shawms, recorders, bagpipes, and whatever instruments he can get his hands on all across the US—including Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble, Ars Poetica, New York Baroque Incorporated, The Sebastians, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Clarion Society, Opera Lafayette, The Washington Bach Consort, The Handel and Haydn Society, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and more. In addition to his performances in concert halls, Ben plays Celtic traditional music with his band, the Chivalrous Crickets. With Alkemie, Ben recently prepared and recorded the music for the award-winning video game set in 16th century Bavaria, Pentiment. Ben’s latest endeavor is performing on the Musette de Cour, a French Baroque bagpipe favored by French Aristocrats, Rameau, and Bonnie Prince Charlie.