"Composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle seems somehow to have escaped academia's toxic postmodernist flotsam almost entirely, creating tuneful work with charm, power, and an occasional chilling frisson of the gothic." [Washington Times]
Dr. Boyle's output, which includes opera, chamber music, art songs, sacred and orchestral music, has reached an enthusiastic and ever-expanding body of appreciative listeners. Recent premiere performances include To One in Paradise, a cantata for string orchestra and vocal soloists (poetry of E.A.Poe), interpreted by the Bachanalia Festival Orchestra of New York at Merkin Hall. Acclaimed cellist Efe Baltacigil premiered Dr. Boyle's new Sonata for cello and piano at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center in March to rave reviews.
His major studies in composition, harmony, counterpoint, and analysis, have been with Dr. Philip Lasser of the Juilliard School and Director of the EAMA Music Programs at L'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He trained at this school for several years in the method of Nadia Boulanger before becoming a faculty member in keyboard harmony and counterpoint. He holds degrees from The Peabody Conservatory, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of South Florida where he studied piano with Robert Helps. Past teachers of his include Narcis Bonet, David del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Samuel Adler, Lukas Foss, and Nicholas Maw.
A new work for solo harp, entitled Suite Sylvanesque, was given its premiere by the exciting Emmanuel Ceysson at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in November 2006.
