Winner of the Nei Stëmmen International Singing Competition in Luxembourg, Benjamin’s roles include Washington DC, Anführer in Toshio Hosokawa’s Erdbeben Träume with Opera Stuttgart, Seraphim 3 in John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Theater Bonn, Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with English Touring Opera, Orphée in a feature length film of Gluck’s Orphée ed Eurydice with INseries Opera, Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea with Ryedale Arts, Hamor in Handel’s Jephtha with Iford Arts, and three roles in the London Handel Festival with Laurence Cummings: Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda, Mirtillo in Handel’s Il Pastor Fido and Tassile in Handel’s Alessandro. 

Benjamin has created roles in contemporary operas in the Buxton, Grimeborn, and Tête à Tête festivals and has understudied Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with English National Opera, Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante with Scottish Opera, and other roles with Glyndebourne & Opera North.

Concert engagements include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society, Handel’s Brockes Passion with Stephen Cleobury and King’s College Choir on BBC Radio 3, BWV 74 with Bach Stiftung & Rudolf Lutz, Handel’s Messiah with Ian Page and the Belgian National Orchestra, the World Premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Arion and the Dolphin, Purcell & Leveridge with Irish Baroque Orchestra in Dublin, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Matthew Halls at Wigmore Hall, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Edward Higginbottom in Italy, Purcell’s Hail, Bright Cecilia with Josef Wallnig in St Petersburg and Handel’s Messiah in Poland and Qatar. 

The son of a Canadian soprano and a lutenist from New Zealand, Benjamin underwent a quintessentially English education. He was Head Chorister at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he read Philosophy, and an Opera Course student at the Royal College of Music. During his studies, Benjamin won the RCM English Song Competition and was a finalist in the overall Lies Askonas Singing Competition.

Benjamin’s recital work includes ‘The Art of the Countertenor’ with Joseph Middleton at the Chelsea Arts Club, with James Sherlock at Gravetye Manor and with Nico de Villiers for Corfu Arts. He is about to release an album of Purcell songs with Julian Perkins and Sounds Baroque.

Benjamin is a passionate singing teacher, and teachers the choristers of Temple Church, London, and St Albans Cathedral. Many of his private pupils have taken Postgraduate places at Music College.