Artist Detailed Info: Tim Benjamin

Tim Benjamin (b. 1975) is a composer from the United Kingdom, and has studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, privately with Steve Martland, and with Robert Saxton at Oxford University. He is the founder and Director of the critically acclaimed contemporary music group Radius.

Tim Benjamin was winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Composer's Award in 1993, at the age of 17, with his work Antagony. He also won the Stephen Oliver Trust's Prize for Contemporary Opera, for his first opera The Bridge. Benjamin's music has been widely performed, by groups including the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and at the BOC Covent Garden Festival, and broadcast on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 3.

Past commissioners include the European Community Chamber Orchestra (Möbius), the Segovia Trio (Hypocrisy), the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Un Jeu de Tarot), and the London Design Festival (his second opera, The Corley Conspiracy).

www.timbenjamin.com

Influences:
Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Louis Andriessen, Iannis Xenakis, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Velvet Underground. Also Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Nielsen, Sibelius, and J. S. Bach.

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