Benjamin C.S. Boyle

Benjamin C.S. Boyle's compositional output includes opera, orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, art songs, and works for piano. Notable performances include the premiere of Dr. Boyle's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Hope College Orchestra with organist Huw Lewis, conducted by Richard Piippo in November 2007. In May 2005, Bachanalia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Lande, premiered the Cantata To One in Paradise for string orchestra and four vocal soloists at Merkin Hall in New York.

A prize-winner in many international competitions, Dr. Boyle is represented by Young Concert Artists, Inc. His music is published by Rassel Editions. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in Music Theory at Westminster Choir College.

His formative studies in composition, harmony, counterpoint, and analysis were under the guidance of Dr. Philip Lasser of the Juilliard School and Director of the EAMA Music Programs at L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He was trained in the method of Nadia Boulanger and continues to build on her pedagogic foundation through both his compositional and theoretical activities. He is a Faculty Member at the EAMA Summer Program in Composition, Keyboard Harmony, Counterpoint, and Analysis.

At the age of 25, Dr. Boyle was the youngest person ever to receive a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Composition, after completing a M.M. from The Peabody Conservatory and a B.M. from the University of South Florida where he studied piano with Robert Helps. Past composition teachers of his include Narcis Bonet, David del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Samuel Adler,Lukas Foss, Jay Reise, Hilton Jones and Nicholas Maw.

Reviews of Dr. Boyle's music have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, The New York Concert Review, and many other publications.