“Composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle seems somehow to have escaped academia's toxic postmodernist flotsam almost entirely, creating tuneful work with charm, power, and an occasional chilling frisson of the gothic.” [ Washington Times] Dr. Boyle’s output, which includes opera, chamber music, art songs, sacred and orchestral music, has reached an enthusiastic and ever-expanding body of appreciative listeners. Recent performances include violinist Emil Chudnovsky playing the Kreutzer Concert Variations at the German Embassy in Washington in a recital sponsored by the Beethoven Society of America. Last spring, Bachanalia Orchestra premiered Dr. Boyle’s Cantata: “To One in Paradise ” for string orchestra and four vocal soloists at Merkin Hall in New York . In December, Dr. Boyle’s new Sonata for Violoncello and Piano was premiered at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall by acclaimed cellist Efe Baltacigil in a concert sponsored by Young Concert Artists. Dr. Boyle is YCA’s Composer-in-Residence 2005-2007.

His major studies in composition, harmony, counterpoint, and analysis, have been with Dr. Philip Lasser of the Juilliard School and Director of the EAMA Music Programs at L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He trained at this school for several years in the method of Nadia Boulanger before becoming a co-Director of the program himself and a Faculty member in Counterpoint and Keyboard Harmony.

At the age of 25, Dr. Boyle was the youngest person ever to receive a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Compositon, after completing a M.M. from The Peabody Conservatory and a B.M. from the University of South Florida where he studied piano with Robert Helps. Past composition teachers of his include Narcis Bonet, David del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Samuel Adler, Lukas Foss, Jay Riese and Nicholas Maw.