Benjamin Hamilton is a sought-after conductor, educator, and award-winning translator of opera.
In 2025, he was appointed Big Sing! Director and Musical Director of the Playground Opera version of Hansel and Gretel for Longborough Festival Opera.
Recent engagements include commissions to devise1 and conduct adaptations of classic operas for the Royal Ballet and Opera’s sell-out ‘Family Sundays’. In summer 2026, Benjamin returns to the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival as Head of Music and will work on all of the season’s professional productions.
Benjamin is an established choral conductor and directs a range of ensembles around the UK. He is Choral Entrepreneur for Warwick: a Singing Town, a schools, health and community singing project, and formerly ran the schools singing programme for the county of Warwickshire as artistic director of Warwickshire Youth Choirs.
For Retrospect Opera, Benjamin has assisted David Parry (Stanford, Shamus O’Brien) and John Andrews (Kennedy-Fraser & Bantock, The Seal-Woman), and conducted Carmen, Le nozze di Figaro, La traviata, and La bohème with DEBUT’s Horizon Orchestra Opera-in-a-Day series.
He has conducted the EU Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Swan, and over 20 operas with companies including Opera Warwick, Kennet Opera, and HighTime, which he co-founded, and translated the acclaimed ‘Oxford Don’ Don Giovanni for Hampstead Garden Opera.
Future projects include assisting John Andrews on a new recording of Dyson’s Violin Concerto with Charlie Lovell-Jones, the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and for Retrospect Opera, recordings of Smyth’s Entente Cordiale (Executive Producer and Conductor), and Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing on which, in addition to preparing a new performance edition from the composer’s manuscript and acting as Executive Producer, he will assist renowned conductor Martyn Brabbins. Benjamin is also editing the works of the composer Margaret More (1903–1966).
