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George Benjamin was born on 31 January, 1960 in London, United Kingdom, is an English composer (born 1960). Discover George Benjamin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 31 January, 1960
Birthday 31 January
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1960

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.

1967

He studied piano privately with concert pianist and eminent teacher, Marguerite Tury in 1967–74, wrote his first composition at the age of nine, and took piano and composition lessons with Peter Gellhorn until the age of 15, after which Gellhorn arranged for Benjamin to continue his lessons in Paris with Olivier Messiaen, whom he had known for many years.

Messiaen was reported to have described Benjamin as his favourite pupil.

He then read music at King's College, Cambridge, studying under Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway.

1980

His orchestral piece Ringed by the Flat Horizon (written for the Cambridge University Musical Society and premiered in Cambridge under the baton of Mark Elder on 5 March 1980) was performed at The Proms that August, while he was still a student, making him the youngest living composer to have had music performed at the Proms.

The London Sinfonietta and Sir Simon Rattle premiered At First Light two years later.

1987

Antara was commissioned by IRCAM for the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou Centre in 1987 and Three Inventions for chamber orchestra were written for the 75th Salzburg Festival in 1995.

1993

In 1993, he curated the first Meltdown music festival in London and in 2010 he was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival in California.

1999

In 1999, he made his operatic debut conducting Pelléas et Mélisande at la Monnaie, Brussels, and he has conducted numerous world premieres, including works by Wolfgang Rihm, Unsuk Chin, Gérard Grisey, and György Ligeti.

2001

For sixteen years, Benjamin taught composition at the Royal College of Music, London, where he became the first Prince Consort Professor of Composition before succeeding Sir Harrison Birtwistle as Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's College London in January 2001.

His pupils include Luke Bedford, Robin de Raaff, and Dai Fujikura.

Other awards include the 2001 Arnold Schönberg Prize, the 2015 Prince Pierre of Monaco composition prize (for his opera Written on Skin), and 2023 the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

An honorary fellow of King's College Cambridge, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Benjamin is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

2002

The London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez premiered Palimpsests in 2002 to mark the opening of ‘By George’, a season-long portrait which included the first performance of Shadowlines by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

2006

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.

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.

2009

It received its London premiere at the Royal Opera House in February 2009.

2010

He was awarded a C.B.E. in 2010, made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015, and was knighted in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Benjamin now lives in northwest London with his partner, the filmmaker Michael Waldman, whose recent credits include The Day John Lennon Died, The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron, and the TV miniseries Musicality.

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2012

More recent celebrations of Benjamin's work have taken place at Southbank Centre in 2012 (as part of the UK's Cultural Olympiad) and at the Barbican in 2016.

Their second collaboration, Written on Skin, premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012.

2013

Benjamin conducted the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in March 2013.

2018

Lessons in Love and Violence, a third collaboration with Martin Crimp, premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2018.

His fourth opera, the 70-minute Picture a Day like this, again with Crimp, was commissioned by and first produced at the Aix Festival at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume in 2023; Benjamin conducted with Marianne Crebassa as the woman.

As a conductor, he regularly appears with some of the world's leading ensembles and orchestras, amongst them the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, the Cleveland and Concertgebouw orchestras, and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

During the 2018/2019 season, Benjamin was Composer in Residence to the Berliner Philharmoniker.

2019

In 2019, critics at The Guardian ranked Written on Skin as the second best work of the 21st-century.

Benjamin was born in London and attended Westminster School.

In 2019, Benjamin was awarded the Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale.