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Benjamin Hillel Shwartz is an American-Israeli Conductor.

From 2005-2009 Benjamin Shwartz was Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. In 2008 he lead the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra on a European tour including debuts in the Berliner Philharmonie, the Munich Philharmonie, and Prague's Smetana Hall.

Benjamin Shwartz has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Riva del Garda Symphony, New World Symphony, and Oregon Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In 2009 Benjamin Shwartz made his opera debut conducting Rossini's Viaggio à Reims in Philadelphia with the Curtis Opera Theater where he will return in 2010 to conduct Bellini's La Sonnambula.

Benjamin Shwartz is also the conductor of Mercury Soul, a new music project started in San Francisco, which he curates together with composer Mason Bates and artist Anne Patterson. The ensemble presents new music for acoustic and electronic instruments in clubs, bars, and other unusual locations blurring the lines between classical, experimental, and electronic music.

Benjamin Shwartz began studying music in Israel and continued in Los Angeles. He studied conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia while studying literature and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied composition with James Primosch. He has also studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen.