Ben Cosgrove (born 30 January 1988) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist from Methuen, MA, whose work mainly explores the intersection of sound and place. His 2011 album Yankee Division is based upon landscapes around Massachusetts and the rest of New England and takes its name from the Yankee Division Highway.His fourth album Field Studies deals with the wider American landscape, from the Sierra Nevada to the Everglades. It was released in January 2014.Cosgrove's nonfiction essays touch upon place, sound, and art. He is a 2010 graduate of Harvard College, where he was a student of Hans Tutschku, and his music usually features his own performances on piano, guitar, mandolin, banjo, trumpet, trombone, upright bass, and dynamic percussion, among other instruments.Cosgrove is a two-time artist in residence at the Signet Society.