Benji Goldsmith — Composer, Musician

Benji Goldsmith is a composer and songwriter as well as a music director, conductor, arranger, vocalist, and teacher. 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, People's Light Theater, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, 54 Below, New World Stages, and various other venues in New York and across the country.

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.

Benji is a native New Yorker and became a member of the Westbeth Artists Community in 2023.