About
Benjamin is currently in his 3rd year of a Bachelor of Music Performance degree under the tutelage of Janet Davies and was a recipient of the Ted and Susan Meller Memorial Fund Scholarship. He has previously studied with Goetz Richter and Sheau-Fang Low. He was a finalist in the Sydney Conservatorium Concerto Competition (2023, 2024), Sydney Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition (2024), semi-finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod Drs Instrumental Scholarship (2023) and a semi-finalist in the Kendall National Violin Competition (2022, 2024). Ben regularly participates in AYO programs and has performed as Concertmaster for the Conservatorium orchestras. In 2023, his quartet was part of the outreach program at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and he performed as a Viola artist alongside Jack Liebeck and Emily Sun. As a recipient of the Henderson’s Travellers Scholarship multiple times, he has travelled internationally as a violinist and violist studying chamber music with Quartetto Di Cremona and Johannes Meissl at the 2022 and 2024 Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival in Finland. He has also studied chamber music with Gregor Sigl, Eckhart Runge and Wayne Foster-Smith in Berlin, and Silvia Simionescu in Switzerland, having solo lessons in Finland with Reka Szilvay, Cecilia Zilliacus and Petri Aarnio. Ben has also hand-crafted a violin for his 2021 Industrial Technology Project under the guidance of Raymond Howes.
Australian Youth Orchestra
