The Lower Clarence Music Eisteddfod is pleased to announce that Ben Oxley will be the 2025 adjudicator. 

With over 20 years of teaching experience, Ben has helped many students achieve vocal freedom. Ben’s own teachers include Eduardo Asquez, Andrew Field and Vernon Mackie, a pupil of Edgar Herbert-Caesari, the author of many books on singing.

Ben’s students have achieved numerous exam, scholarship and competition successes, including recording contracts, entry into the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, professional work with Opera Australia, as well as musical theatre and film credits.

Ben has taught at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, and has also had a private studio in London.

After overseeing The Australian Singing Competition, Ben wrote the eBook ‘Sing to Win’ that outlines all the aspects of winning a singing competition. 

Ben has had the privilege of giving Violette from Nambucca Heads the Junior Championship prize at the 2024 Coffs Harbour Eisteddfod, and she was invited to sing at The Sydney Opera House, and she then went on to perform at the School Spectacular in November 2024.

Ben has previously adjudicated for the eisteddfods of Bathurst, Coffs Harbour, Gladstone, Mildura, Northern Beaches, Ryde, and Wollongong, as well as the National Eisteddfod. 

In additional to adjudicating for the Lower Clarence Eisteddfod in 2025, Ben will also be adjudicating for Kempsey and Taree events.  

“I am looking forward to adjudicating in Maclean at the Lower Clarence Eisteddfod in June”, said Ben.