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Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher. He is well known for operas Into the Little Hill (2006), Written on Skin (2009–2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (2015–2017)—all with librettos by Martin Crimp.
Sep 10, 2018 · When George Benjamin, the British composer, was a small child, he discovered that he had an unusual physiological gift: with a voluntary muscular movement, he was able to block his ears.
George Benjamin is one of the world’s foremost musicians. In each of his fastidiously heard scores, sensuous, alchemical sounds are underpinned with rigorous architecture, never more so than in his series of operas including the ground-breaking Written on Skin.
The Englishman studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and piano with Yvonne Loriod. His first orchestral work, Ringed by the Flat Horizon, was performed at the BBC Proms in 1980. He has since been commissioned by leading institutions, musicians and festivals.
George Benjamin, composer. One of today’s most prominent composer-conductors, George Benjamin was born in 1960 and began composing at the age of seven. In 1976 he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study with Messiaen, after which he worked with Alexander Goehr at King's College, Cambridge.
An honorary fellow of King’s College Cambridge, the Guildhall School, the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music, he was chosen as Musical America’s Composer of the Year in 2014. He lives in London, and since 2001 has been the Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King‘s College, London.
The life of composer George Benjamin - Classical Music
