Benjamin Niemczyk, Conductor

Benjamin Niemczyk is a conductor, singer and composer of uncommon range.

He has performed with Anthony Newman, Hélène Grimaud, Ennio Morricone at Radio City Music Hall and the United Nations General Assembly, John Nelson, Marin Alsop, Harold Rosenbaum, Amy Kaiser, Frank Nemhauser, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

He has held administrative positions with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park Orchestra, New Westchester Symphony, Canticum Novum Singers, New York Virtuoso Singers and C4. He is a founding member of C4. He served on the original jury for the composition competition of the New York Virtuoso Singers. He is the co-founder of the New Westchester Symphony Orchestra.

He is conductor of Westchester Oratorio Society, New Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Chrysalis Consort, and choir director at St Boniface Oratory Church in Brooklyn.

Also an amateur violist, he is a member of the New York Late Starters Orchestra.

He attended Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and DePaul University School of Music. His principal conducting teachers are Cliff Colnot and Harold Rosenbaum.