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Tim Benjamin (b. 1975) is a composer from the United Kingdom, and has studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Steve Martland.
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 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, the Segovia Trio, and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tim Benjamin lives and works in London, UK, and also plays the trombone.