Biography of Musica Bella Orchestra soloist Benjamin Weil

Baritone Benjamin Weil specializes in chamber music, ranging from Bach and Telemann cantatas to contemporary works by Ned Rorem and others. He has sung the Bach cantata no. 82 (Ich habe genug) at New York’s Steinway Hall and in Massachusetts, the Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer at Steinway Hall, Barber’s Dover Beach in Massachusetts, and Ned Rorem’s Santa Fe Songs with piano quintet at the Yamaha Piano Salon in New York. A participant in the Wellesley College Chamber Music Program since 2004, Benjamin has sung the baritone solos from the Bach Mass in B minor, the Brahms Deutsches Requiem, and the Faure Requiem, as well as excerpts from Mozart’s Die Zauberflote (Papageno) and Le Nozze di Figaro (the Count). Other recent performances include Bach cantatas no. 59, 140 and 152 in Lexington, VA, in December 2007.       In addition to chamber music and orchestral solos, Benjamin has performed solo recitals with piano in New York, Paris, Perugia, Italy, and the Virgin Islands. Recent performances include Schubert’s Die schone Mullerin, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Poulenc’s Banalites, Falla’s Siete canciones populares espanolas, Ravel’s Don Quichotte a Dulcinee, and Vaughan Williams’s Four Poems of Fredegond Shove.       Upcoming performances include Gerald Finzi’s By Footpath and Stile (for baritone and string quartet) at New York’s Greenwich Music House in April 2008.       Benjamin lives in New York and studies with Joan Fuerstman.       He will be a soloist in Musica Bella’s presentation of Bach’s Mass in B Minor on January 26 and 27, 2008. Musica Bella concerts: January 26, 2008; January 27, 2008 This bio last updated December 2007