Ben Newhouse is a music educator and composer.
Newhouse authored six online courses for the Berklee College of Music, including Orchestration 1, Orchestration 2, Music Composition for Film and TV 1, Music Composition for Film and TV 2, Compositional Voice Development in Film Scoring, and Music Composition for Film, TV and Games Capstone. The University Continuing Education Association awarded his Orchestration 1 course "Best New Online Course" in 2009, and Berklee awarded Newhouse a "Distinguished Faculty Award" in 2015. Newhouse has also guest-lectured at Pescara Conservatory in Italy and Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia. He authored Creative Strategies in Film Scoring with Berklee Press and Hal Leonard.
Newhouse’s commercial music has been used in over 4,000 episodes of television, including projects for Disney, ABC, CBS, NBC, and most major cable networks. Newhouse was awarded the BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship in 1999.
Newhouse’s orchestral music has been performed by the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, the Seal Beach Symphony, the Eastman School Symphonic Orchestra, the William and Mary Symphony Orchestra, and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts Symphony Orchestra. Newhouse’s overture Heat was awarded the “Howard Hanson Prize” by the Eastman School of Music. Newhouse’s Fantasy for Strings won the “Original Works Award” at the 2015 Orchestra Cup. Newhouse’s chamber music has been performed by various groups around the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Zodiac Trio from France and Talespin in Vienna.
Newhouse is a magna cum laude alumnus of the Eastman School of Music. He is a full-fellowship master's degree alumnus of the University of Southern California, completing a Master's in Business Administration. Newhouse also completed a Business of Entertainment graduate certificate program with the USC School of Cinematic Arts.