Benji Goldsmith is a composer and music director whose work spans concert music, opera, and musical theater. Recent Music Direction credits include Radio City Music Hall, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkrantz (dir. Victoria Clark, starring Rebecca Luker), Butterflies (dir. Graciella Daniele, starring Donna McKechnie), Tim Rice’s From Here to Eternity (Conductor), and William Finn’s The Royal Family of Broadway (Assoc.). Benji toured the world music directing the Yale Whiffenpoofs, and has performed as a vocalist at Tanglewood (soloist), in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, and at many cabaret venues in New York City. He was selected for both the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and the NMI New Voices Project, and is a recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Scholarship, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and Yale’s Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize. Benji teaches at NYU Steinhardt and NYU Tisch, and holds a BA in Music from Yale and an MFA from NYU Tisch.
Benji Goldsmith
