Benjamin Wolf studied at University College, Oxford, Trinity College of Music, and King’s College, London. As conductor he works as Musical Director of the Zemel Choir, the Rushmoor Choir and the Wallace Ensemble, and as choirmaster at Belsize Square Synagogue. He also often works with the Quorum Chamber Choir. With the Zemel Choir he has performed at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and , St John’s, Smith Square. In January 2005 he conducted the Zemel Choir in a special edition of the BBC’s Songs of Praise, and in November of the same year he conducted them in their 50th anniversary concert at St John’s, Smith Square. Recent engagements have included tours to Europe (2007) and Israel (2009), a new CD recording and the Zemel Choir’s new festival, Celebrate with Song. Recent activities with the Wallace Ensemble (a young, professional chamber orchestra) have included a first CD (recorded in summer 2007), a concert of Israeli/orchestral klezmer music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the inaugural Wallace Ensemble composition prize, as well as concerts for the Mill Hill Music Club and Belsize Square Synagogue.

Increasingly active as a composer, his work Siren Song (set to a text from Homer’s Odyssey) has been performed at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, King’s College, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Previous commissions include music for both theatre and choral performance. His first piano concerto, L’Chaim, was performed by The Wallace Ensemble in 2003, while his cello concerto (entitled Etz Chayim), commissioned for the 70^th anniversary of Belsize Square synagogue, received its first performance in March 2009. His most recent work, Song of Demodocus – a setting of part of Homer’s Odyssey – received its first performance at the Ekon Festival of Greek Music in June 2009.

As pianist, he performs with a number of singers and instrumentalists, including cellist Gemma Rosefield, tenor Marc Finer and mezzo-soprano Ruti Halvani. He has also played for cantors Robert Brody, Avromi Freilich and Yitschak Meir Helfgott. As singer, he is founder of the Jewish barbershop quartet, bOYbershop.

In addition to his work as a performer, he is currently studying for a PhD in the social history of twentieth-century music.