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Short Biography

Tim Benjamin (b. 1975) is an Anglo-French composer, and has studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, privately with Steve Martland, and with Robert Saxton at Oxford University where he received a doctorate. 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), the London Design Festival (The Corley Conspiracy), and CNIPAL (Le Gâteau d'Anniversaire). Tim Benjamin lives and works in Todmorden, Yorkshire, and also plays the trombone, viola, organ, and piano and teaches music theory online.

Last but not least, Tim Benjamin produces electronic music under the stage-name Kauppe.

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Free Music

All of my music is available for performance and recording, whether commercial or not, free of charge, under the Creative Commons licence (to be precise, the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence).

You may simply download scores and parts (they are in PDF format) from this site and print them off yourself for your own use. I simply ask that you give the correct attribution, do not create "derivative works", and contact me to let me know about your performances, and so I can help promote your event.

If however you would like to pay, then there's always the tipjar!

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Tip Jar

Any support for my music is of course very gratefully received, and so — in the time-honoured fashion of placing one's open instrument case before the public —
I offer you the opportunity of donating towards my work as a composer - securely, online, via Google Checkout.

FREE! If you are so generous as to donate £5.00, and live in the UK, EU or North America, then I'll post you a free copy of Radius's debut CD, which features excellent performances of two of my works, Five Bagatelles and Piano Prelude I.

Please note that your donation will appear on your credit card bill as "Google * Radius Music".

Thank you!


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