Benjamin Ellin

Currently, British conductor and composer Benjamin Ellin is the principal conductor of the Slatwaite Philharmonic orchestra, music Director of Thursford Productions, the South Bank ensemble and Focus Opera, and President of the Pembroke Academy of music (Walworth, London)
In 2007, he received the Second prize and the audience award at the First international conductor competition. E. Svetlanova in Luxembourg. He made his debut with the Luxembourg Philharmonic orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.

Born in Bolton (1980). He studied music at the Chetam school of music, then at the Guildhall School of music and drama (London), where he graduated in 2002 (John Wulrich composition class).

Benjamin is the recipient of a scholarship. Neil Wint (2002), Leslie Chester award (1998), John Fletcher award from the Youth national orchestra of great Britain (1998). He took part in master classes by Gianandrea Noseda in Stresa (Italy, 2006) and Sir Colin Davies (London Symphony orchestra, 2005). He took private lessons from Sir Colin Davies in 2002, and received a Bernard Haitink scholarship in 2003. In 2001, with the support of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Benjamin took part In international master classes of conductors in St. Petersburg, conducted by Alexander Polishchuk and Mikhail Kukushkin.

Benjamin Ellin is attracted to the music of the twentieth century and contemporary composers, as well as music and musicians from other cultures. He collaborated with the Syrian musician Lue Alhenawi on a project aimed at bringing together the musical traditions of the Middle East and the West. The project involved the EMFEB Symphony orchestra ("music for everyone"), the al-Farabi Syrian folk ensemble, and the Pembroke Academy of music.

He regularly performs with The national youth orchestra and the Symphonietta youth orchestra. In 2002, Benjamin was the head of the project "Youth orchestra in high school."

In September 2009, the musician received the award in composition from the College of fine arts.M. A&G. Barlow (USA, Utah, Provo), in the last twenty-five years, became the second British composer to receive this award.