Benjamin Attahir
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| Born | 25 February 1989  (age 32)Toulouse |
| Occupation | Composer, violinist, conductor |
Benjamin Attahir (born February 25, 1989 in Toulouse[1]) is a French composer, violinist and conductor. He studied at , at the under Édith Canat de Chizy and at the Conservatoire de Paris itself.[1]
He studied the violin under .[1]
Attahir made three short plays for marionettes by Maurice Maeterlinck, La Mort de Tintagiles, Intérieur and Alladine et Palomides, into an opera entitled Le Silence des ombres, premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels in September 2019.
On 21 February 2020, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a concert including his Al Asr string quartet (2017), performed by the , recorded at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland in 2018.[2]
Attahir has also put to music W. B. Yeats's poem 'The song of wandering Aengus'.
References[]
- ^ a b c "Atttahir Benjamin (1989)". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Perth Concert Hall 2018, The Arod Quartet play Al Asr by French composer Benjamin Attahir". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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- 21st-century French composers
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