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News

  • 04 April 2024

    Sir George Benjamin wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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  • 05 July 2023

    Sir George Benjamin conducts the world premiere of his new opera at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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  • 31 January 2023

    Sir George Benjamin awarded Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

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  • 30 August 2021

    Sir George Benjamin conducts World Premiere at BBC Proms with Mahler Chamber Orchestra

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Press

  • Ensemble Modern

    Wigmore Hall, London
    Sep 2023

    • Benjamin arranged the iridescent instrumental colours immaculately around [the soprano, Anna Prohaska].

  • Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the BBC Proms

    Royal Albert Hall, London
    Aug 2021

    • Benjamin and the orchestra set the tone of the performance with effervescently transparent textures.

    • Benjamin led the orchestra in a programme of glittering and dusky aural magic.

  • Philharmonia Orchestra

    Royal Festival Hall, London
    Mar 2020

    • Exquisitely 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.

  • Written on Skin, Festival Présences

    Philharmonie de Paris
    Feb 2020

    • But 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).