Benjamin returns once more to Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias for two concerts: at Teatro Jovellanos in Gijón and Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo for Schubert’s monumental Symphony no.9, the “Great’. The programme also includes Mozart’s evergreen Clarinet Concerto, with the orchestra’s principal clarinettist Andreas Weisgerber as soloist.
Formerly “orchestra seventeen88”, Benjamin is the co-Founder and Principal Guest Conductor of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, who specialise in 18th and 19th century music on period instruments. He will return to Sydney and Melbourne in March 2017 to lead them in concerts featuring music of Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Benjamin returns to conduct the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra and Chór NFM (previously known as the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir) in the Ensembles' 10th anniversary concert at the impressive National Forum of Music. The programme includes Purcell’s Ode to St. Cecilia and two fantastic, celebratory Bach Cantatas.
Benjamin makes his debut with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, conducting works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak on tour in Lombardy and in the Palazzo Reale of Milan.
Benjamin returns to conduct one of Poland’s most established period ensembles Musicae
Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense (from the Warsaw Chamber Opera) at the 26th Warsaw Mozart Festival in June.
Benjamin conducts the final premiere of the Shakespeare Season at the Budapest State Opera -
Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen, turned into an “opera noir” by director András Almási-Tóth, and featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and the Fekete-Kovács Quintet.
On Sunday February 28th, Benjamin will make his debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, conducting the combined forces of Collegium Vocale Gent and Akademie für Alte Musik in a fantastic programme featuring two of Handel's most famous Odes: "The Ways of Zion do mourn" and the "Ode for St.Cecilia's Day".
Benjamin returns to Dutch National Opera, in collaboration with the Dutch National Youth
Orchestra, to lead in Cimarosa’s comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto as part of the Opera Forward Festival: a new festival that explores the future of opera through innovative and groundbreaking projects.