中文名：乔治·本杰明 外文名：George Benjamin 国籍：英国 出生地：伦敦 生日：1960年1月31日 职业：作曲家、指挥家 经纪公司：Linn Records， Nimbus Records， RCO Live 毕业院校：西敏公学， 巴黎国立高等音乐舞蹈学院， 剑桥大学国王学院 简介：Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher. 从艺历程：Benjamin was born in London, attended Westminster School and then studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire during the second half of the 1970s. Messiaen was reported to have described Benjamin as his favourite pupil. He then read music at King's College, Cambridge, studying under Alexander Goehr. His 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 youngest living composer to have had music performed at the Proms. He followed this with two more works: A Mind of Winter in 1981 and At First Light (1982), but he then wrote little more until 1993. In 1992–94, he helped Yvonne Loriod complete her husband Olivier Messiaen's last work, Concert à quatre. In 1993, he curated the first Meltdown music festival in London. 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. In 1999 he made his operatic debut conducting Pelléas et Mélisande at la Monnaie, Brussels, and he has conducted numerous world premieres, including works by Wolfgang Rihm, Unsuk Chin, Grisey and Ligeti.[citation needed] As a conductor he regularly appears with some of the world's leading ensembles and orchestras, amongst them the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, the Cleveland and Concertgebouw orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.[citation needed] In the 2002–03 concert season, the London Symphony Orchestra gave a season-long festival of concerts which he curated, called "By George!". In 2010 he was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival in California. He has been a teacher and mentor to younger composers such as Luke Bedford and Dai Fujikura.