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Benjamin Yusupov

Benjamin Yusupov is an Israeli composer, conductor and pianist born in Dushanbe in 1962.

born 1962Viola Tango Rock ConcertoCello concerto for Mischa MaiskyConducting orchestras in Europe and Israel

Born: 22 November 1962, Dushanbe
Occupation: conductor, composer, pianist, musician
Education: Moscow Conservatory, Tajikistan National Institute of Art, Bar-Ilan University

Benjamin Yusupov was born in 1962 in Dushanbe

Yusupov was born on November 22, 1962, in Dushanbe, then in the Tajik SSR and today in Tajikistan.

He studied piano, composition and conducting at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. His teachers were Roman Ledeniov, Yuri Fortunatov and Dmitri Kitajenko. After moving to Israel he earned a doctorate at Bar-Ilan University.

His works are published by Sikorski Musikverlag in Hamburg and are played by orchestras in many countries. In 2005 his Viola Tango Rock Concerto, written for Maxim Vengerov, had its world premiere in Hannover. He also wrote a cello concerto for Mischa Maisky and a second violin concerto, Voices of Violin, for Vadim Repin.

As a conductor he has appeared in halls in Lucerne, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich and Cologne. He was music director of the Raanana Youth Symphony Orchestra, founded the Kfar Saba chamber orchestra Soloists of Israel, and conducts the Kfar HaYarok symphony orchestra. In June 2023 he was chosen as composer in residence of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.