Benjamin Beck

Benjamin Beck has toured worldwide, performing solo, chamber and concerto repertoire in the most prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Paris Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie, Carnegie Hall and Tokyo Yamaha Hall. He has been a professor at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels since September 2021.

Benjamin is regularly invited to lead the viola sections of major orchestras such as Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, thanks to his earlier experience serving as principal viola at Bavarian State Orchestra and two years of playing at Berlin Philharmonic as a scholarship recipient of the Karajan Academy.

At the age of 16, Benjamin participated in his first international competition and was the youngest violist ever to win both 1st and special prizes in the Llanes International String Competition. In 2015, Benjamin released his first solo CD "Les voix de l'alto" (The voices of the viola). He arranged Janacek's masterpiece "The Cunning Little Vixen" for viola, piano and narrator into an innovative form of "musical tale," a work funded by the French Ministry of Culture. His latest project is the transcription of Wagner's opera Lohengrin for string sextet, which was praised by the press and premiered at the Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, the Villa Wahnfried.

Benjamin has completed his studies with Kim Kashkashian in New England Conservatory and with Jean Sulem in Paris Conservatory.

To share music with those who have difficulty to access it, Benjamin is engaging in various activities worldwide, for instance, in France with Créations en Cours, and in India and Japan with ICEP/ Music Sharing.