Sir GeorgeBenjamin
- Conductor


About Sir George
One of today’s most prominent composer-conductors, George Benjamin's works have been programmed by major orchestras and opera houses across the world.
Benjamin has written four highly acclaimed operas with author Martin Crimp: Into the Little Hill, Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence and most recently Picture a day like this.
In June 2025 Benjamin performed the world premiere of his new work for piano four hands, Divisions, at the Boulez Saal in Berlin with his great friend Pierre-Laurent Aimard. During the 2025/26 season they will repeat the work in London, Washington DC and New York. They will also collaborate with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. In spring 2026 he will conduct the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie on tour in both Italy and Germany. At the Southbank Centre in London he has performances with both the London Sinfonietta and London Philharmonic, the latter being a highlight of his first season as the orchestra’s new Composer-in-Residence.
Over many years he has developed a particularly close association with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, who played under his baton for several premieres of his works. Benjamin has also enjoyed a strong relationship with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Ensemble Modern.
Since 2001 Benjamin has been the Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King‘s College London. He was knighted in 2017 and has received numerous honorary fellowships and international awards.
His works are published by Faber Music and are recorded on Nimbus Records.
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:

Alison Nethsingha
Representation
Worldwide general Management with Askonas Holt
Askonas Holt only represents George Benjamin as a conductor.
Any enquiries relating to his work as a composer please contact Faber Music.
http://www.fabermusic.com/composers/george-benjamin
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Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
George Benjamin conducts Debussy's La Mer with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the BBC Proms (extract)
Credit: BBC Proms (NYO)
George Benjamin conducts Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Berliner Philharmoniker (extract)
With Cédric Tiberghien Credit: Berliner Philharmoniker
George Benjamin conducts Palimpsests with the Berliner Philharmoniker (extract)
Credit: Berliner Philharmoniker
News
Press
Ensemble Modern
Wigmore Hall, LondonSep 2023Benjamin arranged the iridescent instrumental colours immaculately around [the soprano, Anna Prohaska].
- The Guardian
- 13 September 2023
Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the BBC Proms
Royal Albert Hall, LondonAug 2021Benjamin and the orchestra set the tone of the performance with effervescently transparent textures.
- The Guardian
- 31 August 2021
Benjamin led the orchestra in a programme of glittering and dusky aural magic.
- The Telegraph
- 31 August 2021
Philharmonia Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall, LondonMar 2020Exquisitely crafted [the programme]...Janacek’s 1926 Sinfonietta closed the programme with a blaze of extra brass, the pace swift, the flavours intense, the playing tight and bright.
- The Times
- 09 March 2020
Written on Skin, Festival Présences
Philharmonie de ParisFeb 2020But what an orchestra! The Radio France Philharmonic seems galvanized by the presence of the composer at the baton... the conductor keeps a rhythmic and precise gesture at all times, and thus allows impeccable synchronisation between instruments, whose alloys give rise to sublime, always unexpected sounds (like this viola da gamba-harp combination in one of the Boy's tunes).
- Bactrack
- 16 February 2020
Discography
- George Benjamin - Ensemble Modern - Live
- Picture a day like this
- Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)
- Lessons in Love and Violence
- Into the Little Hill
- Musica Viva 22
- Written On Skin
- George Benjamin Piano Figures: Ten short pieces for solo piano
- Horizon 2, A Tribute to Olivier Messiaen
- George Benjamin Palimpsests and other Orchestral Works
- Harvey, Boulez and Benjamin Orchestra Music