Benji Goldsmith

Education:

• BA in Music from Yale University
• MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch

Studio Affiliation:

ETW

Benji Goldsmith is a composer and music director based in New York City. His writing spans genre and form, encompassing concert music, opera, and musical theater. His music, shows, and songs have been performed at Ars Nova, Trinity Rep, Barrington Stage Company, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, 54 Below, New World Stages, and various other venues in New York and across the country.
Recent Music Direction credits include Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkrantz (dir. Victoria Clark, starring Rebecca Luker), Butterflies (Barrington Stage Company, dir. Graciella Daniele, starring Donna McKechnie), Tim Rice’s From Here to Eternity (Conductor), and William Finn’s The Royal Family of Broadway (Barrington Stage Company).

Benji toured the world music directing the Yale Whiffenpoofs, and has performed as a vocalist at Tanglewood (soloist), in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, and at many cabaret venues in New York City. He was selected for both the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and the NMI New Voices Project, and is a recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Scholarship, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and Yale’s Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize.