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Opèra-vignette for soprano and ensemble by Tim Benjamin and Carol Ann Duffy: recording, reviews, and score available now
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Coming Events
Avignon / Marseille 2010
Featuring a new chamber opera by Tim Benjamin, Le Gâteau d'Anniversaire, at l'Opèra de Marseille (18th-19th March) and Opèra d'Avignon (13th March)
Centre National d'Artistes Lyriques
National Portrait Gallery
Several of Tim Benjamin's works will be performed at an early-evening recital at London's National Portrait Gallery, on Friday April 23rd 2010. Admission free!
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), and the London Design Festival (his second opera, The Corley Conspiracy). Tim Benjamin lives and works in Todmorden, Yorkshire, and also plays the trombone.
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!
Access the music and listen to online recordings
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.
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