Ben Witherstone • Guitarist

Ben Witherstone

Guitarist

Live & Studio • Musical Theatre • Recording Sessions • Education

(Professional enquiries welcomed — typically replies within 24 hours)

Bio

Ben Witherstone is a UK-based session guitarist with extensive touring and recording experience, including over two years on the road with Hamilton – UK & Ireland Tour. He is widely regarded for his reliability, musical versatility, and calm, production-ready approach both on stage and in the studio.Ben is frequently called upon to dep at short notice and is equally comfortable working across theatre, session work, library music, and live performance.His improvisational instincts and stylistic fluency allow him to move confidently between genres, from contemporary pop and rock through to jazz-influenced material.Ben records from his own treated home studio using studio-grade microphones and preamps, delivering dry, wet, and DI stems in all required formats.He works primarily in Logic and Avid-compatible workflows and is experienced in providing clean, session-ready multitrack recordings for producers, artists and music teams.

Gallery

Selected Credits/Worked With

Musical Theatre & Touring
Hamilton – UK & Ireland Tour
Guitars & BanjoBat Out of Hell: The Musical – UK Tour
Guitar 1 – Electric & SteelTarantino Live – London 2023
GuitarBat Out of Hell: The Musical – International Tour (2022–23)
Guitar 1 – Electric & SteelBat Out of Hell: The Musical – UK Tour (2021–22)
Guitar 1 – Electric & SteelX Factor Live – UK Arena Tour
GuitarSelected Dep Work
The Last Tango; Fat Friends; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Calendar GirlsArtists
Tyler Lewis — prod. MNEK
Dalton Harris — X Factor winner
Anthony Russell — X Factor finalist
Shan Ako — X Factor finalist
Michelle Williams — Destiny’s Child
Shannon Forrest — Toto
Natalie Shay
Jocelyn Brown
Javen — US Worship Artist
Jill Marie Cooper — The Voice UK finalist
Joe McElderry
The Waletones
Georgie Chapple
Fred Russ
Kayla Grace
Lily Finlay
Rachel Grae
Steve Kopandy
Emie Nathan
Calvin Goldspink — former S Club Jrs.
Dave Giles
Alto Key
Flavia Cacace — (Strictly Come Dancing)
Vincent Simone — (Strictly Come Dancing)
Isaac ButlerProducers / MDs
Andy Whitmore — prod. (Peter Andre, Eternal, East 17)
Pip Williams — prod./arr. (Status Quo, The Moody Blues, orchestral productions)
Joseph Wander — prod. (Måneskin, Declan J Donovan, Cian Ducrot)
Richard Taylor — MD (Bananarama, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, X Factor Live)
Alex Lacamoire — Musical Supervisor/Orchestrator (Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; In The Heights)
Richard Beadle — Musical Supervisor / MD / Orchestrator (Hamilton UK & Ireland, The Greatest Showman, Hair, extensive West End & TV work)
Michael Reed — Musical Supervisor/MD (Bat Out of Hell; Oliver!; Sister Act)
Jesse Vargas — Musical Director (Tarantino Live)
Stephen Bell — Conductor (Hallé Orchestra)
Mike Dixon — Musical Supervisor/MD (West End and UK television productions)
Kennedy Aitchison — Musical Director/Keys (Cats; Jesus Christ Superstar; Hallé Orchestra; BBC)Library / Production Music
Hitpoint Music
TAG
TEDFixers
BW Musicians
Music Solutions
London Musicians Ltd
BEK Music
Absolute Music Services LTD

Audio

A cross-section of my recording work; the majority of the tracks below were recorded remotely from my home-studio.

Remote Sessions/Recording

I regularly remotely provide electric, acoustic, nylon-string, mandolin and banjo parts for artists, producers and composers UK and worldwide.How it works:
· Send your track and brief
· I record from my treated home studio
· You receive clean, mix-ready WAV stems (dry, wet and DI as required)
· Revisions available if needed
· Fast, reliable turnaround

(Typical response within 24 hours)

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