Tim Benjamin

Tim Benjamin (born 14 September 1975) is an Anglo-French composer. Born in London and educated at Christ's Hospital school, he later studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, Steve Martland, and with Robert Saxton at Oxford University. In 2007 he founded the new music ensemble Radius.

Tim Benjamin was winner of the 1993/94 BBC Young Musician of the Year Composer's Award, at the age of 17, with his work Antagony, which was first performed by the London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins. He also won the Stephen Oliver Trust's Prize for Contemporary Opera, for his first opera The Bridge (to a libretto by David Edgar). His second opera, The Corley Conspiracy, was performed in September 2007 at the Southbank Centre, London.

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 Two and BBC Radio 3. Past commissioners include the European Community Chamber Orchestra, the Segovia Trio, and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Originally from London, Tim Benjamin lives and works in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK, and also plays the trombone.