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Benjamin Ashkenazy is an Israeli conductor and composer of Jewish-Bulgarian origin.

Biography
Ashkenazy immigrated in Israel with his family in 1948. He studied composition with Yitzhak Sadai and conducting, piano and clarinet at the University of Tel Aviv and the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. After that he left for Europe and continued his studies with the conductors Franco Ferrara, Roberto Benzi and Sergio Celibidache. Since 1973, Ashkenazy has been living in the Netherlands and studied orchestra conduction at Louis Stotijn and composition at Peter Schat at the Royan Conservatory in Hague.

Career
Ashkenazy is an active conductor with orchestras in the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Italy, Israel and Bulgaria. He works as a Chamber Orchestra Conductor in the Netherlands, performing mainly music from the XX century. He is a counselor and permanent visiting conductor of the Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria and of the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Ashkenazy is related to the Shuman Academy in the Hague as a teacher of composition, musical theory and orchestra conduction. Since 1993, Ashkenazy has been an Artistic Director of the International Classical Music Festival in Warsaw.

Ashkenazy is the author of the book The Systematical Process in Solfege and Harmony.

Compositions
Ashkenazy has written a series of works for symphonic orchestra, chamber music and film music. He receives composition orders from the Netherlands and abroad.

Awards
Ashkenazy won the first prize at the International Conducting Competition in the town of Bordeaux, France.

External references

 * Benjamin Ashkenazy's page on the Donemus site
 * Official website