Benjamin Wolf studied at University College, Oxford, Trinity College of Music and King’s College, London. As an orchestral conductor he has worked for the BBC Proms and performs regularly with The Wallace Ensemble, a young professional orchestra of which he is co-founder. Recent performances with this orchestra have included a concert of Israeli/orchestral Klezmer music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the first performance of his piano concerto, L’Chaim and the inaugural Wallace Ensemble composition prize. He has also participated in masterclasses with Benjamin Zander and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery and the National Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania and Stephen Cleobury and the BBC Singers.

Since becoming Musical Director of The Zemel Choir he has performed at a number of major London venues, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. John’s, Smith Square, St. James’ Church, Piccadilly and the Victoria and Albert Museum.  In January 2005 he conducted The Zemel Choir in a special edition of the BBC’s Songs of Praise. In November he conducted the Choir in their 50^th anniversary concert at St. John’s Smith Square. He is Musical Director of the Rushmoor Choir of Aldershot, and regularly conducts the Quorum Chamber Choir.

Increasingly active as a composer, he was recently commissioned to write the incidental music for an adaptation of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market at the Southwark Playhouse. Other credits include music for Frederic Lonsdale’s Canaries Sometime Sing (performed in London and France in 2003). He was commissioned to write a setting of two psalms for a Zemel choir concert in June 2004, and completed his first piano concerto, L’Chaim, in November 2003. Other works include choral motets, piano solo works, chamber pieces and songs.

As pianist, he performs regularly with a number of singers and instrumentalists. He works regularly with opera singer Ruti Halvani, with whom he has performed in a number of venues in the UK and Europe.

He is currently studying for a PhD in the social history of twentieth-century music.