Benjamin Northey is an Australian conductor, musician and arranger. He has been Chief Conductor of the

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in New Zealand since 2015.thebigidea
Retrieved 8 November 2014 He is also the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor - Learning and Engagement of the

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having previously been Principal Conductor in Residence from 2020 to 2023. He was previously the Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 2010 to 2019. From 2025 he has been appointed Conductor in Residence of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Artistic Director Designate of the Australian Conducting Academy, a national training program for Australian and New Zealand Conductors which he will commence in 2025.

Early life and family

Northey was born and raised in

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, Victoria. His father Robert (Bob) Northey is a retired university administrator and former president of the Ballarat Symphony Orchestra and his mother Wendy is a forensic psychologist and pianist."Honour for Ballarat conductor
''The Courier'', 13 February 2011
Retrieved 8 November 2014"Code of Conduct"
''The Weekly Review'', 11 February 2011
Retrieved 8 November 2014 His uncle is the retired AFL football player and coach

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. He attended

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where he studied flute, clarinet and saxophone with Barry Currie and arranging with Graeme Vendy,Royal South Street
. Retrieved 8 November 2014 and where his skills as a saxophonist, clarinettist and flautist were first developed; in his early years he also played piano, trumpet and violin.14 February 2011
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'' . Retrieved 8 November 2014ABC Radio
Monica Attard, Speaking out: Interview with Benjamin Northey, 27 June 2008
Retrieved 8 November 2014 At 12, he won prizes in Ballarat's

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for performances on flute and saxophone. During his teenage years he began working professionally in local pit orchestras in Ballarat for musical theatre and operetta productions. After school he moved to

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, where he worked as a freelance musician, composer and arranger for close to ten years. During this time he was an active recording session musician and also performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Pops Orchestra and the Australian Showband. He appeared as a soloist with the Australian Wind Orchestra on their tour of Japan and Hong Kong in 1990. In 1998 he toured Australia and the United States as keyboardist and saxophonist with guitarist

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Training

In 1996 Northey commenced performance studies in classical saxophone at the

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Faculty of Music, graduating in 1999 with First Class Honours. It was only in the final year of his degree, at age 29, that he turned to conducting. This occurred under the mentorship of John Hopkins, who encouraged him to be the first candidate for his new Master of Music in Conducting degree at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Music. He graduated in 2002.Stacey Trust
. Retrieved 8 November 2014Willoughby.new.gov.au
. Retrieved 8 November 2014 In 2001 he won the Nelly Apt Scholarship for study in Israel. The same year he won the Symphony Australia Young Conductor of the year competition, marking the first time the two most prestigious Australian conducting prizes had been won by the same person in the same year. Part of the prize for the latter award was the opportunity to study in Sydney with

Jorma Panula Jorma Juhani Panula (born 10 August 1930) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Klaus ...

, under the aegis of the Symphony Australia Conductor Development Program. In 2002 he was the highest placed applicant to the Orchestral Conducting Course at the

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in Helsinki, Finland. He studied there for three years under

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and

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. In 2004 his diploma concert with the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra was awarded the international jury's highest possible mark. The program included the European premiere of

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's ''Amphitheatre''. He completed his tertiary studies in 2006 as a guest student in Jorma Panula's class at

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. In 2007 he was chosen from a worldwide field as one of three participants in the International Conductor's Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation. This involved a year-long mentorship with the

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(LPO) and the

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, with conductors

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and

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. This culminated in a performance of

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's Symphony in C in June 2008 at the

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in London.

Conducting

In 2002 Ben Northey first displayed his interest in contemporary music by conducting the world premiere of Mark Elliott's Concerto for Chinese Sheng and Orchestra with the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. From 2002 to 2006, he was Resident Guest Conductor of the Australian Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (later renamed the

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, of which he was Principal Guest Conductor 2007–10). His major professional conducting debut came in 2003 with the

, in a concert at the

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that included

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's 6th Symphony. In 2005 he made his official European conducting debut with the

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. He was also a visiting artist at the

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and a guest lecturer in conducting at the University of Melbourne. Since returning to Australia in 2006, Northey has been a regular guest conductor with all the Australian state symphony orchestras. He has also led opera productions including ''

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', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the O ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; full title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legen ...

and

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'', ''for companies such as the

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and

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and the ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream for the

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. In 2006 he worked with

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and the

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to create an orchestral take on the Hoods' platinum-selling album "The Hard Road Restrung". This unique collaboration won an

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.''"Notes of Discord"
Katarina Kroslakova, Australian Financial Review, 1 December 2012
Retrieved 8 November 2014'' His orchestral arrangements have been used by

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, Lior Attar,

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and

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. In 2011 he was appointed Associate Conductor of the MSO (officially the Patricia Riordan Associate Conductor Chair) In 2017 the position was extended to the end of the 2017 season. This position was created especially for Northey, and is the only associate conductor position in any Australian state orchestra. In 2012 he was a last-minute replacement when Scottish conductor

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fell ill before an MSO Master Series concert, which included

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's 4th Symphony and

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's Violin Concerto No. 1 performed by

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. He is credited with re-invigorating the MSO Town Hall concert series. Contemporary compositions he has premiered include works by

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, Catherine Milliken,

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, and

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. On 5 November 2014 he was seen by a national television audience when he conducted the

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and Sydney Philharmonia Choir in the

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at the State Memorial Service for the late former Prime Minister

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. He is Co-Artistic Director with

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of the Hush Music Foundation which produces recordings of therapeutic music for use at the

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in Melbourne.

Other orchestras conducted

Northey has been a guest conductor with the following orchestras:

Artists collaborated with

Northey has collaborated with numerous artists including:

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as

AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. History The inaugural 2006 awards were held at Blacket Hot ...

) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. , - ,

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

, '' Live at the Sydney Opera House'' , rowspan="4", Best Independent Classical Album , , - ,

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, ''Bach Concertos'' , , - ,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, ''Live at the Sydney Opera House'' , , - ,

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

, '' Blueback (Original Motion Picture Score)'' , , -

ARIA Music Awards

The

ARIA Music Awards The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, ''Baroque Guitar Concertos'' (with

Slava Grigoryan Slava Grigoryan is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist. He frequently collaborates and performs with his younger brother, fellow guitarist Leonard Grigoryan, performing as the Grigoryan Brothers. Career Grigoryan signed with ...

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). History The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestr ...

) , rowspan="3" ,

Best Classical Album The Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as t ...

, , rowspan="3" , ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, ''Ades Polaris / Stanhope Piccolo Concerto'' (with

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Markus Stenz Markus Stenz (born 28 February 1965, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a Germans, German conducting, conductor. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Volker Wangenhein and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seij ...

) , , - ,

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

, ''Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2'' (with Jayson Gillham &

) , , - ,

, ''Ella and Louis'' (with James Morrison,

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) , Best Jazz Album , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

, ''Bach Concertos'' (with Grigoryan Brothers &

) , Best Classical Album , , , - ,

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

, ''Joseph Tawadros Live at the Sydney Opera House'' (with

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) , Best World Music Album , , - ,

, ''Blueback – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack By Nigel Westlake'' (with

) , Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album , , , - ,

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, ''Deborah Finsterer - Stabat Mater'' (with

& Choir of Trinity College Melbourne) , Best Performance - Notated Composition , , -

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Northey, Benjamin 1970 births Living people Entertainers from Ballarat Australian male saxophonists Australian clarinetists Australian flautists University of Melbourne alumni Sibelius Academy alumni 21st-century Australian saxophonists 21st-century Australian conductors (music) 21st-century clarinetists 21st-century Australian male musicians 21st-century flautists People educated at Ballarat Clarendon College