George Benjamin

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Benjamin
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1960(1960-01-31)
Age	64
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

George Benjamin Biography

George Benjamin is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on January 31, 1960 in London, England, United Kingdom. Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January, 1960) is an English composer of classical music. Benjamin is also a conductor piano, teacher and conductor.

In the year 2019, Benjamin was awarded the Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievements at the Venice Biennale. Other Awards are that of the Arnold Schonberg Prize, and the 2015 Prince Pierre of Monaco composition prize (for his opera Written on Skin). A honorary fellow of King’s College Cambridge, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and The Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Benjamin is also an Honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Benjamin was given an honorary C.B.E. in 2010 and was made an Officer of the Order des Arts et des Lettres in 2015, and knighted during the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

For the past 16 years, Benjamin was a composition teacher in The Royal College of Music, London in which he was the very first Prince Consort Professor of Composition after taking over from Sir Harrison Birtwistle as Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King’s College London in January 2001. His students comprised Luke Bedford and Dai Fujikura.

George Benjamin Net Worth

George Benjamin is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Benjamin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His orchestral work Ringed by the Flat Horizon (written for the Cambridge University Musical Society and first performed on the stage in Cambridge under the direction by Mark Elder on 5 March 1980) was played at The Proms in August when he was in school, which made him the youngest composer to have had his music played at Proms. The London Sinfonietta and Sir Simon Rattle, premiered At First Light two years later. Antara was requested by IRCAM to commemorate the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Pompidou Centre in 1987 and Three Inventions for chamber orchestras were composed to celebrate the 75th Salzburg Festival in 1995. In 1995, the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez presented Palimpsests in 2002 in celebration of the beginning of “ByGeorge The Season’s Long Portrait that featured the first performance of Shadowlines by Pierre-LaurentAimard. Recent events celebrating Benjamin’s art took place at the Southbank Centre in 2012 (as part of the British Cultural Olympiad) and at the Barbican in 2016.

Conductors his regular appearances include the world’s most famous orchestras and ensembles, among the latter his orchestras are the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern and the Cleveland and Concertgebouw orchestras, as well as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In 1999 He made his operatic debut with Pelleas and Melisande on the stage of la Monnaie, Brussels, and has conducted numerous world premieres, including pieces composed by Wolfgang Rihm, Unsuk Chin, Grisey and Ligeti. He also was the curator of the very first Meltdown musical festival held at London while in 2010,, he was the Music Director for Ojai Music Festival. Ojai Music Festival in California. In the 2018/2019 season, Benjamin was the Composer in Residence for Berliner Philharmoniker. Berliner Philharmoniker.

Benjamin’s first operatic work Into the Little Hill, written with playwright Martin Crimp, was commissioned in 2006 by the Festival d’Automne in Paris. It received its London premiere at the Royal Opera House in February 2009. Their second collaboration, Written on Skin, premiered at the Aix-en-Provence festival in July 2012. Benjamin conducted the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in March 2013. Lessons in Love and Violence, a third collaboration with Martin Crimp, premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2018.

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George Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. George Benjamin celebrates birthday on January 31 of every year.