Editing George Benjamin (composer)

{{short description|English composer (born 1960)}}
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'''Sir George William John Benjamin''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 31 January 1960) is an English [[composer]], [[conducting|conductor]], [[pianist]] and teacher.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Debrett's People of Today 2017|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|year=2017|editor-last=Hume|editor-first=L.|location=London, U.K.|via=Credo Reference}}</ref>

==Biography==
Benjamin was born in London and attended [[Westminster School]]. He studied piano privately with Marguerite Tury from 1967–1974.  He wrote his first composition at the age of nine, and took piano and composition lessons with [[Peter Gellhorn]] until age 15,<ref>[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045767?rskey=8DChUf&result=1 Anderson, Julian. 'Benjamin, George (William John)' in ''Grove Music Online'']</ref> after which Gellhorn arranged for Benjamin to continue his lessons in Paris with [[Olivier Messiaen]], whom he had known for many years.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/16/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Obituary, 'Peter Gellhorn' in ''The Guardian'', 16 February 2004]</ref> Messiaen was reported to have described Benjamin as his favourite pupil.<ref>Angelique Chrisafis, [https://www.theguardian.com/france/story/0,,1956703,00.html "British composer's 20-year opera quest ends with Paris premiere"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719201506/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/25/france.classicalmusic |date=19 July 2020 }}. ''The Guardian'' (London), 25 November 2006</ref> He then read music at [[King's College, Cambridge]], studying under [[Alexander Goehr]] and [[Robin Holloway]].

Benjamin's 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 then-youngest living composer to have had music performed at the Proms.<ref name="GT">{{cite web|url=http://www.compositiontoday.com/articles/benjamin.asp|publisher=online at Composition:Today|title=George Benjamin: Overview|author=Gavin Thomas|access-date=10 March 2013|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428021453/http://compositiontoday.com/articles/benjamin.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[London Sinfonietta]] and [[Simon Rattle|Sir Simon Rattle]] premiered ''At First Light'' two years later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lso.co.uk/more/blog/691-rattle-the-exhibition.html?showall=&start=1|title=London Symphony Orchestra – Rattle: the exhibition|website=lso.co.uk|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023210454/https://lso.co.uk/more/blog/691-rattle-the-exhibition.html?showall=&start=1|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Antara'' was commissioned by [[IRCAM]] for the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou Centre in 1987<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/antara-765|title=Antara|website=www.fabermusic.com|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023161047/https://www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/antara-765|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Three Inventions for chamber orchestra'' were written for the 75th [[Salzburg Festival]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/three-inventions-for-chamber-orchestra-2526|title=Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra|website=www.fabermusic.com|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023161049/https://www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/three-inventions-for-chamber-orchestra-2526|url-status=live}}</ref> 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]].<ref>George Benjamin,[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,794831,00.html "My heroes and I"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524033200/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,794831,00.html |date=24 May 2007 }}, ''The Guardian'' (London), 20 September 2002: He was artistic consultant to the BBC's 3-year retrospective of 20th-century music for the Millennium, 'Sounding the Century'. There have been major retrospectives of his work in London, Pris, Tokyo, Brussels, Berlin, Strasbourg, San Francisco and Madrid.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f1a5b354-ef5c-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/f1a5b354-ef5c-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386 |archive-date=10 December 2022|title=Benjamin at the Barbican, Barbican, London — 'The power of suggestion' |website=Financial Times|date=21 March 2016 |language=en-GB|access-date=23 October 2019 |url-access=subscription |last1=Nepilova |first1=Hannah }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/may/14/benjamin-weekend-review|title=Jubilation: The Music of George Benjamin – review|last=Clements|first=Andrew|date=14 May 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=23 October 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

[[File:"Written_on_Skin"_at_Opera_Philadelphia_(38770669300).jpg|alt=|thumb|300x300px|A scene from a 2018 performance of Benjamin's opera ''[[Written on Skin]]'' by [[Opera Philadelphia]]]]

Benjamin has composed four operas, all with librettos by [[Martin Crimp]].  Their first operatic work was ''[[Into the Little Hill]]'', 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/10/written-on-skin-review|title=Written on Skin – review|last=Jeal|first=Erica|date=10 March 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=1 November 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ''[[Lessons in Love and Violence]]'', their third collaboration over the period 2015–2017, premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2018.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/11/lessons-in-love-and-violence-review-royal-opera-house-george-benjamin | title=''Lessons in Love and Violence'' review – soaring tale of a brutal royal downfall | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=2018-05-11 | access-date=2025-01-16 | archive-date=20 October 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020172313/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/11/lessons-in-love-and-violence-review-royal-opera-house-george-benjamin | url-status=live }}</ref>  Their fourth opera collaboration, ''Picture a Day like this'',<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/24/picture-a-day-like-this-review-george-benjamin-martin-crimp-royal-opera-house | title=''Picture a day like this review'' – Benjamin's modern fairytale of sparse and moving beauty | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=2023-09-24 | access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref> 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.<ref>Allison, John. Report from Aix-en-Provence. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', September 2023, Vol. 74 No. 9, p1063.</ref>

As a conductor, Benjamin made his operatic debut in 1999 conducting [[Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)|''Pelléas et Mélisande'']] at [[La Monnaie]], Brussels,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nimbusrecords.co.uk/index.php?id=george-benjamin|title=George Benjamin|website=www.nimbusrecords.co.uk|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref> and he has conducted numerous world premieres, including works by [[Wolfgang Rihm]], [[Unsuk Chin]], [[Gérard Grisey]], and [[György Ligeti]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.schott-music.com/shop/hamburgisches-konzert-no165679.html|title=Hamburg Concerto|website=englisch|language=en|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2013/mar/18/gerard-grisey-contemporary-music-guide|title=A guide to Gérard Grisey's music|last=Service|first=Tom|date=18 March 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=23 October 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/contemporary-composer-unsuk-chin|title=Contemporary composer: Unsuk Chin|last=Dixon|first=Gavin|date=6 February 2018|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|language=en|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023161117/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/contemporary-composer-unsuk-chin|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, he curated the first [[Meltdown (festival)|Meltdown]] music festival in London and in 2010 he was the [[Ojai Music Festival: Music Directors|Music Director]] of the [[Ojai Music Festival]] in [[California]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: eighth blackbird and other new music at Ojai Music Festival|first=Mark|last=Swed|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/eighth-blackbird-at-ojai-festival.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=15 June 2009|access-date=15 June 2009|archive-date=9 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509023955/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/eighth-blackbird-at-ojai-festival.html|url-status=live}}</ref>  For the 2018–2019 season, Benjamin was composer-in-residence with the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] Orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20182019/composer-in-residence-20182019/|title=Composer in Residence 2018/2019 {{!}} Berliner Philharmoniker|last=Philharmoniker|first=Berliner|website=www.berliner-philharmoniker.de|language=en|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-date=6 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606015852/https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20182019/composer-in-residence-20182019/|url-status=dead}}</ref>  In January 2025, the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] announced the appointment of Benjamin as its next composer-in-residence, effective September 2025.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://lpo.org.uk/london-philharmonic-orchestra-announces-sir-george-benjamin-as-new-composer-in-residence/ | title=London Philharmonic Orchestra announces Sir George Benjamin as new Composer-in-Residence | publisher=London Philharmonic Orchestra | date=14 January 2025 | access-date=2025-01-16 | archive-date=16 January 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250116072447/https://lpo.org.uk/london-philharmonic-orchestra-announces-sir-george-benjamin-as-new-composer-in-residence/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

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]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robin De Raaff |url=https://brahms.ircam.fr/en/robin-de-raaff |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=brahms.ircam.fr |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424132103/https://brahms.ircam.fr/en/robin-de-raaff |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Dai Fujikura]].<ref>{{cite web|title= I'm inspired by Stockhausen, Xenakis ... and Seinfeld|url= http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1404819,00.html|author= Tom Service|work= [[The Guardian]]|location= London|date= 4 February 2005|access-date= 10 March 2013|author-link= Tom Service|archive-date= 3 May 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120503103948/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1404819,00.html|url-status= live}}</ref>

==Honours==
In 2019, Benjamin was awarded the [[Golden Lion Award]] for lifetime achievement from the [[Venice Biennale]]. Other awards include the 2001 [[Arnold Schönberg Prize]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://delphianrecords.co.uk/person/george-benjamin/|title=George Benjamin {{!}} Delphian Records|language=en-GB|access-date=17 October 2019|archive-date=17 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017162738/http://delphianrecords.co.uk/person/george-benjamin/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the 2015 Prince Pierre of Monaco composition prize (for his opera ''Written on Skin''),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/2015|title=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco|website=www.fondationprincepierre.mc|access-date=17 October 2019|archive-date=17 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017162737/https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and 2023 the [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]].<ref name="nmz_9">{{cite web | title=Komponist George Benjamin erhält Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis – neue musikzeitung | website=[[nmz]] | date=31 January 2023 | url=https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/komponist-george-benjamin-erhaelt-ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis | language=de | access-date=2023-01-31 | archive-date=31 January 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131010909/https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/komponist-george-benjamin-erhaelt-ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, Benjamin received the [[Ivor Novello Awards|Ivor Novello Award]] for Outstanding Works Collection.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ophelia |first=Maya |date=2022-11-15 |title=The Ivors Composer Awards 2022 winners announced |url=https://ivorsacademy.com/news/the-ivors-composer-awards-2022-winners-announced/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Ivors Academy |language=en-GB}}</ref> For 2023, he received the [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ |title=BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2023 |access-date=21 April 2024 |archive-date=21 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921232238/https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, critics at ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked ''Written on Skin'' as the second best work of the 21st-century.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Clements|first1=Andrew|last2=Maddocks|first2=Fiona|last3=Lewis|first3=John|last4=Molleson|first4=Kate|last5=Service|first5=Tom|last6=Jeal|first6=Erica|last7=Ashley|first7=Tim|date=12 September 2019|title=The best classical music works of the 21st century|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/12/best-classical-music-works-of-the-21st-century|access-date=31 May 2021|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921054947/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/12/best-classical-music-works-of-the-21st-century|url-status=live}}</ref>  In 2024, ''Picture a day like this'' received an [[Ivor Novello Awards|Ivor Novello Award]] nomination for Best Stage Work Composition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Mark |date=2024-10-15 |title=Nominations for The Ivors Classical Awards 2024 announced |url=https://ivorsacademy.com/news/nominations-for-the-ivors-classical-awards-2024-announced/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Ivors Academy |language=en-GB}}</ref>

An honorary fellow of [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College Cambridge]], the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]], the [[Royal College of Music]] and the [[Royal Academy of Music]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nimbusrecords.co.uk/index.php?id=george-benjamin|title=George Benjamin|website=www.nimbusrecords.co.uk|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref> Benjamin is also an Honorary Member of the [[Royal Philharmonic Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/honorary/benjamin|title=George Benjamin|website=Royal Philharmonic Society|language=en-GB|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref> He is foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Ledamöter | website=Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien | url=https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/omakademien/organisation/ledamoter.39.html | language=sv | access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref> He was awarded a [[C.B.E.]] in 2010,<ref>Announcement in ''The London Gazette'', Issue 59446, 12 June 2010, p. 7</ref> made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barenboimsaid.de/george_benjamin_composers_club|title=George Benjamin Guest at Composers' Club|website=barenboimsaid.de|language=en|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref> and was knighted in the [[2017 Queen's Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B2|date=17 June 2017}}</ref>

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

==Works==
Source<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fabermusic.com/composers/george-benjamin/works|title=George Benjamin – Works|website=www.fabermusic.com|access-date=1 November 2019|archive-date=1 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101131801/https://www.fabermusic.com/composers/george-benjamin/works|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Opera===

* ''[[Into the Little Hill]]'' (2006): libretto by [[Martin Crimp]]
* ''[[Written on Skin]]'' (2009–2012): libretto by Martin Crimp
* ''[[Lessons in Love and Violence]]'' (2015–2017): libretto by Martin Crimp
* ''Picture a day like this'' (2023): libretto by Martin Crimp

=== Orchestral ===

*''Ringed by the Flat Horizon'' for orchestra (1979–1980)
*''A Mind of Winter'' for soprano and orchestra (1981, text: [[Wallace Stevens]])
*''Sudden Time'' for large orchestra (1989–1993)
*''Three Inventions'' for chamber orchestra (1993–1995)
*''Sometime Voices'' for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1996, text: [[William Shakespeare]])
*''Palimpsests'' for orchestra (2000–2002)
*''Dance Figures'', nine choreographic scenes for orchestra (2004)
* Duet for piano and orchestra (2008)
*''Dream of the Song'' for countertenor, female chorus and orchestra (2014–2015, texts: [[Solomon ibn Gabirol|Solomon Ibn Gabirol]] and [[Samuel ibn Naghrillah|Samuel HaNagid]], trans. [[Peter Cole]]; [[Federico García Lorca]])
* Concerto for Orchestra (2021)

=== Ensemble ===

* Octet for 8 players (1978)
*''At First Light'' for 14 players (1982)
*''Antara'' for 16 players and electronics (1987)
*''Upon Silence'' for mezzo-soprano and viols/strings (1990, text: William Butler Yeats)
*''Olicantus'' for 15 players (2002)

=== Chamber and instrumental ===

* Piano Sonata (1977–1978)
*''Flight'' for solo flute (1979)
*''Three Studies'' for piano (1982–1985)
*''Viola, Viola'' for viola duo (1997)
*''Shadowlines'' – six [[Canon (music)|canonic]] [[Prelude (music)|preludes]] for piano (2001)
*''Three Miniatures'' for solo violin (2001–2002)
*''Piano Figures'' – ten short pieces for piano (2004)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Alex Ross, [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2013/03/25/130325crmu_music_ross  "Illuminated: George Benjamin's long-awaited masterpiece"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', 25 March 2013.
* Andrew Powell, [http://www.musicalamerica.com/mablogs/?p=12992  "Written On Skin, at Length"], ''[[Musical America]]'', 24 August 2013.
* [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-george-benjamin King's College London page on George Benjamin]
* [https://www.fabermusic.com/we-represent/george-benjamin Faber Music page on George Benjamin]
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2018705,00.html George Benjamin, "In the realm of the senses" (article on György Ligeti)] ''The Guardian'', 23 February 2007.
* [http://www.klavierfestival.de/index.php?id=1089&L=1/ Education project on collection "Piano Figures"] – George Benjamin explains his work in short films
* {{BrahmsOnline|346}}
* Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva), {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130823070422/http://operalively.com/forums/content.php/856-The-Exclusive-Opera-Lively-Interview-with-composer-George-Benjamin  "The Exclusive Opera Lively Interview with composer George Benjamin"]}} on operalively.com, 25 July 2013
* {{cite magazine |author=Mead, Rebecca |date=17 September 2018 |title=Inner voice |department=Onward and Upward with the Arts |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=94 |issue=28 |pages=18–24 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/how-the-composer-george-benjamin-finally-found-his-voice <!--access-date=2018-11-12-->}}
* [http://www.bruceduffie.com/benjamin.html Interview with George Benjamin], 18 April 2005
* {{cite book |last=Palmer |first=Andrew |year=2015 |title=Encounters with British Composers |publisher=[[Boydell & Brewer]] |location=Suffolk |isbn=978-1-78327-070-5 |jstor=10.7722/j.ctt1814gv6 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=4QU3CwAAQBAJ}} }}

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