Ben Foster

Person · Open Library

Works

13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1941

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

11,709

Total plays

459,771

Born in Liverpool, UK, Ben is a composer, orchestrator and conductor. He is best known for his work as orchestrator and conductor on the BBC series Doctor Who, as well as his work composing for the first three series of the BBC’s Torchwood, which earned him 3 BAFTA nominations in the “Best Music” category. Ben is also known for his arrangement and conducting work on films such as Prometheus and The Grey, and for artists such as Gary Barlow, Peter Gabriel and Hayley Westenra. <a href="https://ww

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 75,958x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 54,002x

3. Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology

   · 2015 · cited 29,136x

4. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 22,038x

5. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,937x

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ben

Family name

Foster

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Occupation

composer

Educated at

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Languages spoken

English language

Official website

www.mannersmcdade.co.uk/composer/ben-foster

Image

Ben Foster at Doctor Who Prom.JPG

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